Word: plutarch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life of Mark Antony, Plutarch produced one hilariously elegant sentence. It turned the loverboy's debauches into a kind of civic virtue: "((Antony)) never feared the audit of his copulations, but let nature have her way, and left behind him the foundations of many families...
Truman lived in Independence from age 6 to 21, the formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...