Word: sappho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overwhelmed girl finds herself the center of a confused interplay of secret attachments, disguised affections, and loyalty conflicts between teachers and pupils in a community where Miss Julie is an unwilling, latter-day Sappho. Miss Cara dies myteriously of an overdose of sleeping drops: was it suicide over losing Olivia's affections? Miss Julie leaves school, telling Olivia emotionally that her life has been a constant fight against letting her feelings triumph over her social conscience; that she has lost the fight, and rather than be descreet, prefers to go away. And Olivia rides off in a carriage with...
About the best line in English poetry [TIME, Sept. 13]: the late eminent critic, George Saintsbury, plumped for Shakespeare's Hamlet line, "The rest is silence," as one of the two "jewels four words long" in all poetry. The other, of course (said Saintsbury), is Sappho's "Ego de mono, kateudo" [But I sleep alone...