Word: xenophon
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...MARCH UP COUNTRY: XENOPHON'S ANABASIS (205 pp.)-Translated by W.H.D. Rouse-University of Michigan...
...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 68 member nations of the International Monetary Fund met last week to grapple with what Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece, wryly termed "numismatic plethora." The inflated phrase aptly described the basic cause of inflation-a common crisis of too much money and too few goods. Not even the Greeks had a word for the cure. Yet all knew that the fund's work in stabilizing currencies by strategic loans was one of the free world's most powerful weapons...
...Samsun, police interference steadily increased. At Giresun, where a detachment of soldiers with fixed bayonets surrounded him the moment he stepped ashore, Gulek tried waving to onlookers, only to be warned by the police chief: "You are creating a political demonstration by waving. Kindly desist." At fabled Trebizond, where Xenophon's weary Ten Thousand finally reached the sea, the police tried to whisk Gulek from the dock to party headquarters in a car. When he insisted on making the trip by foot, they used clubs and jeeps to scatter the crowds that gathered to catch sight...
...recognize the great literary themes (e.g., "Christian atonement" in Lord Jim, "the defiance of Lucifer" in Moby Dick), to be familiar with various literary devices. The Latin course takes them through Cicero's De Senectute, Livy, Sallust, some of St. Augustine and Horace. The Greek course covers Xenophon, Plato and Homer. In mathematics, students plunge into calculus; in German, they will read such authors as Schnitzler, Heine, Hesse, Lessing and Schiller. Finally, before going to college, they must pass special examinations. Among the types of questions suggested...
...black coat and stovepipe hat, a tall young man slouched in the saddle one fall afternoon in 1826 while his horse ambled into the little village of Oxford, Ohio. Even as he rode he read, and his saddlebags bulged with volumes of Livy and Horace, Ovid and Xenophon. William Holmes McGuffey, newly appointed professor of ancient languages at Oxford's Miami University, was exactly the type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate a museum...