Word: seneca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back in Chicago, brother Simon has married for money and made more, but Augie still doesn't know what he wants. An intellectual friend tries to guess: "O King David! O Plutarch and Seneca! O chivalry! . . . O Strozzi Palace. O Weimar! O Don Giovanni, O lineaments of gratified desire! O godlike man! Tell me, pal, am I getting warm?" He is. But by this time, war has come, and Augie, joining the merchant marine, goes to New York. He sees Stella there, marries her and reflects that he doesn't envy his brother, "seeing I was married...
...became an assistant dean at Columbia and received his Ph.D. there is 1945. In 1948, he became president of Hobart, which, with William Smith College, is known as The Colleges of the Seneca...
...same year that Marx & Engels published their Communist Manifesto (1848), a group of women met in Seneca Falls, N.Y., pondered their discontents, and issued a manifesto of their own. "The history of mankind," it said, "is a history of repeated injuries . . . toward woman." The downtrodden of Seneca Falls resolved to turn woman's wrongs into Woman's Rights. Moreover, the same sort of female revolt was getting under way all over Christendom...
...Philosopher Albert Schweitzer: "The great sickness of man is that he is constantly seeking entertainment and more entertainment, sometimes of the stupidest and more cruel type, instead of finding stimulation from within. Look into some aspects of sports and boxing and you'll see what I mean. Seneca was one of the first to speak out against the combat of the gladiators. Isn't there possibly a parallel between the decadence of the declining Roman Empire and our own overemphasis on mass hysteria stimulated by some mass sports...
...himself had more exotic tastes. He married the daughter of an Indian chief. Inducted into the Seneca tribe, he was dubbed "Ounewaterika," meaning "boiling water, or one whose spirits are never asleep...