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...that parallels Author Shirer's). Hero Whitehead had once been in the foreign service, but the State Department had found his reports "too literary.'' Someone must have been letting him down gently. Whitehead-Shirer uses "tomes"' and "major opus" for books, "espied" for saw, "eminent solon" for Senator. When Whitehead is thinking deeply, as he does one day at a baseball game, he writes of the fans: "Most of them. I suppose, have mediocre jobs and live in drab houses and have little learning and no appreciation of art." When Senator O'Brien (an "imaginary...
Chicago & Grand Opera: "As you will remember, the Egyptian priests in Plato's story told Solon: "You Greeks are only boys.'... And like America [the Greeks] were rather violent. I can imagine the Persians and Egyptians saying to one another, 'I say, isn't it shocking how many murders get committed in Greece?' . . . But the murders didn't stop things from getting done. I fancy the place I have been in that was most like Greece was a gathering of university scholars at Chicago! The city was disorderly but very much alive...
...notion of individual liberty is written large in almost every legal code as far back as Solon, and perhaps even before him. Moreover, the concept of justice as the proper moral objective of the law also appears at a very early date...
Biographer Jones believes that Freud was the first man ever to "know himself," the first to examine depths whose "inner resistance" had baffled all others "from Solon to Montaigne, from Juvenal to Schopenhauer." But stout partisanship in no way dulls the brilliance of Jones's biography, any more than it did in the case of James Boswell's celebrated admiration for Samuel Johnson...
...boss and chief stockholder of Schenley Industries, Inc., Lewis Solon Rosenstiel built a $438 million empire and a reputation in the liquor trade as a confident hustler. During Prohibition, while distillers were folding up, Rosenstiel, then a whisky broker, bet his money on Repeal ; he bought up all the whisky he could lay his hands on. Result: the year after Repeal, his new Schenley company had sales of $40 million...