Word: solon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patriarch. William Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region. When one of his sons slays another in a fit of sexual rage, the hoary solon is faithful to the credo of the crags and becomes the boy's executioner. While it provokes thought, is often sensitively acted, this earnest incident has perhaps been regarded too literally, fails to achieve dramatic impact...
...pinnacle of the tower will shortly stride the colossal image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect...
Other contributors are Joseph Urban and Armistead Fitzhugh (landscape architect) of Manhattan, Eliel Saarinen of Detroit, Leon V. Solon (ceramics) of Tenafly, N. J. & Manhattan...
...Athens the dictatorial governments of Solon, Pisistratus and Pericles marked the most brilliant stations in the evolution of democracy. ... As I repeatedly said, even when I was in power, I never believed that dictatorial rule could ever be a permanent and durable political regime. . . . I consider that by means of favorable conditions created through a temporary disregard of formalities, it is possible to solve problems and render such service as no parliamentary government would be able to achieve despite its good will. I wish that Greece may prosper in peace and happiness and may never again need my services...
Hippocrates, "Father of Medicine," lived in the 5th Century B.C. and like Solon the "Law Giver" fixed rules for the conduct of his profession. His Oath, to which Justice Proskauer referred, is (in its Christianized version): "Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever and ever...