Word: aurelius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sank, it took some arts with it. The great casualty was large-scale sculpture in the round. From Constantinople to Italy, there are plenty of low-relief carvings after the 4th century. But not for a thousand years would there be bronze heroes on horseback to match the Marcus Aurelius on the Roman capitol. From Constantine onward, the Christian emperors preferred flat hieratical art, especially mosaics, whose multiplicity of shapes suited a power based on ceremony. The "otherworldliness" of those gold-and purple-sheathed Byzantine nobles, glittering in mosaic on the walls of Ravenna and points east, is propaganda; there...
...corners. At 9 o'clock sharp, the tall, no-nonsense teacher begins to stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell us?" "He alone is poor who does not believe in himself," they chant in unison...
...continued my wanderings through a kaleidoscope of red, blue, green and black riding jackets. Exquisitely coiffured equines responded precisely to the gentle guidance of their riders' reins. Braided manes and brushed tails were only fitting for horses bearing names like Marcus Aurelius, Royal Core or Her Majesty's Arthur of Troy...
GOLO MANN, West German historian: Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, valiant pessimist and warm philanthropist, was good for his own age. In our time, vacillating between two very different types, Franklin Roosevelt and Konrad Adenauer, I choose the former because his achievements had greater significance for world history. His demagoguery was tempered by humanity; he could not hate. He was fearless and had humor, two virtues that Bismarck, too, possessed; he radiated hope and meant well by people, which Bismarck...
...author's "hopeful" scenario requires neither a new morality nor even a new lifestyle. Instead Corson prescribes a '70s revival of old-fashioned American character. Lots of hard work, lots of sacrifice. Like a native Stoic-a Marine Corps Marcus Aurelius- Corson sees no true alternative to doing one's duty abroad to the Third World and doing one's duty at home to the Other America of the poor and the disenfranchised. Nothing less can exorcise the failure of Viet...