Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coleman admits he'll miss wrestling. The Spartan existence; the wins; the losses; that time he missed the team flight back to Boston; ah, "that time after the banquet sophomore year . . . we got drunk . . . started throwing beer cans out of the window . . . then all of a sudden...
...plans to use the firm to sell subscriptions and products and run market surveys. Vittert remains president, sometimes working 60 hours at a stretch. He is a bachelor who does not drink, smoke or cuss and seldom dates. He drives a battered, four-year-old convertible, lives in a spartan one-room apartment and dislikes business entertaining to the point that he serves visitors sandwiches for lunch in his office. He professes little interest in making more money. "What can I do with it?" he asks, echoing the concern of the confused generation. "Eat four meals a day?" Instead, Vittert...
...their irregular and grueling schedules no doubt play an important role in doctors' infamously high divorce rates. And 36-hour shifts are hardly conducive to good medical practice. A reformation should attract not only qualified females but qualified males who previously have also been reluctant to make such spartan sacrifices. HELEN W. REMICK Davis, Calif...
...same conspiratorial breathlessness that they once brought to underground liturgies or challenging institutional rules. When the cops-and-robbers bustlings of the people around Philip Berrigan contributed to his early capture last year in a Manhattan church rectory, one weary bystander dismissed them as "lollipop revolutionaries." Yet the selfless, spartan, unattached life of priests and nuns could, in theory, make them apt revolutionaries in earnest. For that reason, although both Philip and Daniel Berrigan have been longtime proponents of optional celibacy, they nevertheless promote celibacy for anyone who wants to serve the "resistance" best...
...thrown into prison, officially for complicity in the Helot rebellion but actually because he represents a different, more serious threat to Lykourgos's rule. A leering, over-weight, foul-minded old mystic, constantly eating onions, farting, and peeking in windows to watch elderly couples making love. Agathon scorns the Spartan ideal and gleefully embodies its antithesis. The novel deals with how he got this way and how he views himself, the people he knows, the universe he inhabits. Gardner adroitly uses the device of alternating two manuscripts: Agathon's disjointed writings in jail, and those of his cellmate and disciple...