Word: seneca
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Formerly a professor at Haverford, he wrote two books on the Roman statesman and scholar, Seneca, and did a translation of Seneca's letters for Harvard...
COURAGE leads starward, fear toward death," wrote Seneca. Man needs courage simply to live in spite of knowing that he must die. He needs it to live richly-to take risks and thereby define himself. There are many kinds of courage, moral and physical, but all involve a struggle against heavy odds. In that sense, the astronauts' courage is new and not easily, classified...
...Seneca said that art imitates nature...
...Spafford had come to the 1848 public declaration of independence for women, the Declaration of Women's Rights set forth in Seneca Falls, New York. She skimmed on to the present. Here Dr. Bennetta B. Washington, wife of Washington, D.C.'s Negro mayor, took over: "Women--Today and Tomorrow." She was now speaking to a bored and increasingly restless audience. The more bold slipped...
...them, the battle cry of women's rights was only a musty echo from the past. Yet, 120 years after the Seneca Falls declaration, women's clubs are still holding "First Ladies Luncheons." And last week in New York a prominent female correspondent was barred from a press luncheon with British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Roy Jenkins. The gathering took place in a men's club...