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Word: seneca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to allow Royalist glamour to blind their eyes to the King's infinite capacity for treachery, deceit and absolutism. The Roundheads' chosen poet, John Milton, sang them no sparkling songs; he merely compressed their deadly earnestness into a few short lines culled from Seneca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Under Two Flags | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As Vast as Mankind | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Comparative Literature 185, "The Shape and Content of Classical Drama," to be taught by Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, will compare representative plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Seneca, in an attempt to better understand the literature of Greece and Rome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Depts. Plan Course Additions For Next Term | 4/19/1958 | See Source »

Stones & Ecstasy. Last week, in his deep, sleepy, Godfrey-like voice, Gibson scattered pearls of wisdom from Seneca to Shaw, philosophized about unreasonable husbands, holes in pants pockets, in-laws, self-improvement, reformers and movie censorship ("Upon what kind of filth do these our censors feed, that they have become so pure?"). Though he draws on a subject file of 6,000 cross-indexed listings for his conversational ploys, Gibson never uses a script, a Teleprompter or an "idiot card," even ad-libs his commercials. He makes it a jaunty habit to breeze into the radio studio scant seconds before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Word Jockey | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Born. To Floyd Patterson, 21, and Sandra Elizabeth Hicks Patterson, 18: their first child, a daughter, four hours and 23 minutes before Boxer Patterson anesthetized creaky old Archie Moore to become heavyweight champ (see SPORT) ; in New York City. Name: Seneca. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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