Word: promethean
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...first "protomen." His most ardent biographer is Anatomist Raymond Arthur Dart of Johannesburg, who has constructed a vivid picture of his ways from the man-ape fragments thus far dug up. In a report released by the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Dart adds a few more imaginative strokes to his Promethean portrait...
...distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades ago, the West's Promethean spirit of change collides with the East's age-old piety of tradition, and both lose...
Philosopher Russell's brand of logic is still interesting-an exhibit of a kind of world view that once seemed bold and Promethean. Today, while it still commands many followers, it seems to others as outmoded as bloomers...
...regard to his nephew and. in addition, insist that Beethoven felt toward him not like an uncle but like a very maternal mother. But the documents seem to indicate only that Beethoven had the feelings of an adoring if tyrannical relative for his nephew and that he hammered his Promethean will at the boy's head like a full orchestra attacking the opening bars of the Fifth Symphony. Too much of the book's argument springs from unproved assumptions and pounces upon unverified conclusions. Nonetheless, leaving aside some of the Freudian interpretations, it is an illuminating book that...
...last weeks of his life go by, the passionate questions become more & more trivial ("Is barley syrup made from barley?"), the obsessive topics more & more Promethean and miserable ("The cowards, to keep an unarmed man imprisoned upon a rock!"). The books and encyclopedias on his tables are replaced by syringes and bowls, bottles of orange-flower water, gentian, licorice, quinine and calomel. The doctors hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting...