Word: spackman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Spackman's university students may not agree that the Aeneid contains an exciting love affair [TIME, Sept. 13], but I wish to assure him that high-school students (at least the girls) do. Most of them are strong partisans of Dido. It is some comfort to them and restores Aeneas somewhat in their estimation, to run across the lines where he says he did not leave Dido willingly, but because of the orders of the gods...
...completely convinced of the feasibility of Miss Geweke's plan (which I have heard her and her committee explain at several classical association meetings), but I do think Professor Spackman is most unfair...
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