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When reading Plutarch's Morals recently I came across these further proofs that TIME is aptly named...
...Nina Rosa, its author, company, producers and composer, apology and congratulations that TIME was misinformed. -ED. Plutarch & Time Sirs...
...homeloving sybarites, the book is dedicated to "that large group of citizens who have always cherished a glass of sound wine as a vitally important part of their dinner." Testimonials to the cup that cheers but does not inebriate have been culled from Thackeray, Athaeneus, Pliny, Aristotle, Galen, Plutarch. "On the other hand, we cannot be too emphatic in declaring that we are not interested in promoting the happiness of that wretched group whose only criterion of excellence in wine is the violence of its 'kick.' Let them ride white mule to maudlin joys. We have nothing...
Knowing Alexander's almost negroid penchant for big funerals* two expeditions hope that without too much difficulty they will find traces of his tomb. Britisher Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, proposes to start soon for Alexandria. Says he: "According to Plutarch exact position of Alexander's tomb was unknown. However, it may possibly be found in one of the Royal cemeteries, but I anticipate a long, difficult and expensive search...
...Significance. Many Frenchmen have written about Mirabeau?notably Louis Barthou whom Author Jouvenel, generous, believes "almost conclusive." Orderly, perceptively, amusedly, with a good eye for a subject's public-private proportions, Author Jouvenel renders this portrait as a biography in the tradition, though not the manner, of Plutarch, Suetonius, Maurois...