Word: virgil
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...contrary. Once an instructor at Columbia, whose equivalent of the Core still consists of a general education in “Great Books,” Russell specialized in teaching the non-Western components of the curriculum. He has imported this emphasis into his Harvard seminars; alongside Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and the Bible are added the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, and a number of sources on Zoroastrianism.Sitting in on the course and talking with a number of enrollees, one quickly gets the impression that this is an offering which consumes a large amount of Russell?...
Stewart has an inherently likable role, our bemused Virgil in the Inferno of media clichs. Colbert plays the devil himself: the millionaire pundit pretending to stand up for the little guy. He can even demagogue astronomy. When astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson told him Pluto should not be considered a planet, Colbert debated him thusly: "Isn't that just East Coast liberal intellectual ... did you go to an Ivy League school?" "Yes, I did." "... Ivy League-- educated people telling us what is or isn't a planet...
...While the only Latin most of us know is “veritas,” experts at the Latin table can speak freely about things like house life. To ease conversation, one Latin scholar has compiled a list of Harvard-related terms translated into Latin. Quadlings can tell Virgil they live in the Tetragonum and freshmen can tell Augustus that they dwell in Area Harvardiana. Last week, participants also discussed dentistry. “O medicum malum!” was Siena T. Koncsol’s ’08 response when Anna K. Swenson...
Sure, he may be borrowing liberally from past greats in the process of finding his own style, but some of Goethe’s “Roman Elegies” might as well have been written by Virgil...
...entire affair reminds me too much of typical middle school-clique infighting?except that 13-year-olds don't hold the power of life and death over millions of people. What can we do to ensure that positions of power are held by more responsible, cooperative, civil adults? Jo Virgil Austin, Texas...