Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STONE sets Plato's Socratic dialogues against the accounts of contemporary Greek dramatists to try to reconstruct the story of Socrates and Athens. Plato, Socrates' Boswell, so to speak, was often disingenuous in recounting his mentor's ordeal. Through Plato, Socrates became a noble martyr forced to drink the hemlock because of he constantly exhorted his fellow Athenians to virtue. But, Stone writes, Socrates wasn't tried simply for being a nudge. Socrates may be "revered as a nonconformist, but few realize that he was a rebel against an open society and the admirer of a closed...
...have a man with Stone's impeccable "progressive" credentials on record as a lover of the much-maligned great books. It can only help to have a writer with Stone's verve bring the ancient texts and characters to life and demonstrate how the classic writers of Athens speak to us today. Athens "is our yesterday," he writes, "and we cannot understand ourselves without...
...also has a very good chance at winning on both borads and taking her third Outstanding Diver Award--winning it all, so to speak...
...next few weeks, Leonid Abalkin, a close economic adviser to Gorbachev, is scheduled to speak at the Russian Research Center...
According to Collins, the union should not complain to the hotel, but should speak to the non-union contractor that got the job. "They don't have a lot to get at Felsway, so they're coming at us," said Collins...