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...speaking entirely without any prepared text or notes, the rumpled classicist drew from the range of ancient Greek literature, as he built up his unorthodox argument that Socrates and Plato were totalitarian, absolutist, and elitists to boot. Along the way, he made brief detours, for instance to call Solon the "Franklin D. Roosevelt of Athens" or to make a plug for studying the great classes ("All our feelings as human beings are there...
...chorus of scene stealers on both sides of the camera. Sullivan, a feline too mean for the Official I Hate Cats Book, is given the voice of gravel-garbling Aldo Ray. Someone finally found an apt role for ancient John Carradine: the basso voice of the Great Owl, fierce solon of the forest. Jeremy the Crow is a splendidly funny creation, all good will and ill wind, and Dom DeLuise speaks the part so perfectly that he deserves to become the first cartoon "voice" to be nominated for an acting Oscar...
...Solon, Ohio...
...Harvard in 1942 and the United States Army in 1945 (where he was a communications officer who landed on Omaha Beach three days after D-Day), Engel has been writing continually. He published his first novel, A Length of Rope, in 1952, followed it with The Vision of Nicholas Solon in 1959, and Voyager Belsky in 1962. In addition to the three novels there has been a book about Dickens, the result of his Ph.D dissertation, and an edited collection called The Uses of Literature. Nineteen years after the publication of his last novel, he has produced Fish, which will...
After three hours of intense competition, Lisa Springer of Solon, Ohio defeated 4378 other Ohio State University students to win the world's largest game of musical chairs...