Word: solon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONCE, Herodotus tell us, there was a rich ruler, Croesus, who had just about everything a man could want. One day he asked Solon, the world's wisest man, to tell him who was the happiest man in the world, expecting of course to hear "You, Sire." Instead, Solon mentioned that it is not good policy to eulogize before the end. Even as he was saying this, Croesus' enemies were laying the plans which brought about his eventual fall...
...whole, Solon's is not bad advice for George Bush or the pundits who have already given him this election. While neither was looking, Mike Dukakis has been busy preparing for what may be the coup of the campaign. Barring any last minute glitches or changes of heart he will appear on a special 90 minute edition of ABC's Nightline tonight, alone. Bush refused ABC's offer to appear together with Dukakis. For Dukakis, who has come out of the second debate slipping fast in the polls, all of this could not have come at a better time...
...play dates of Columbia's Leonard Part 6 after the studio "broke its commitment to us" and pulled The Last Emperor from Cineplex theaters. The air thickened with threats, and as of now, Drabinsky says, "the two corporations are not doing business together." Viewing all these skirmishes, one industry solon is impressed but skeptical. "Drabinsky is very bright and articulate," he says, "but he's also very arrogant. Other exhibitors watch from afar as he builds his Taj Mahals. The next few years will be the telltale heart. Can he handle theater expansion, film and TV production and distribution...
GoalieG W-L-T Min Sv% Gaa Sh Rich Mattson 18 13-3-2 1635 79.0 1.21 5 Peter Solon 1 0-0-0 45 100 0.00 0 Adelphi Totals 18 13-3-2 1680 79.2 1.18 5 Opponent Totals...
...bounces forward to greet a visitor. "I had two ideas last night," booms Mortimer Adler. This is not a man whose ideas run to trivia. His latest work, "We Hold These Truths" (Macmillan; $16.95), examines the U.S. Constitution, tracking the concept of "rightful authority" back to the Greek statesman Solon, then bringing it forward to culmination in the Constitution's codification of the world's first federal republic. The logic and progression is pure Adler, and the book's initial critical success surely comes as no surprise to the author, a man who recalls not a single failing of self...