Word: plutarch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hurry, hurry, my dear friend, thumb over your Plutarch and choose a subject familiar to everyone-it counts a great deal." Jacques-Louis David, the painter prophet of the French Revolution, was advising a favorite pupil. "Now give yourself to what really constitutes history painting," he went on. "All other sorts . . . will disappear; only this is safe from men's passions...
...classic. Plutarch or Dante could not have surpassed it. The resemblance to Aimee Semple McPherson is uncanny. . . . Too bad there are not more women like them...
...reporter asked if she enjoyed reading as much as music. "Oh yes," said Eva. And did she have any favorites? "Why do people ask me questions like that? I like everything I read." But surely she must have some favorites. "Well," said Eva, her brow furrowed in agonized thought, "Plutarch." "He's an ancient writer," she added hastily...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). An appraisal of Plutarch's Lives by British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Journalist Max Lerner, Harvard's Boylston Professor Theodore Spencer...
Public scrutiny of the doings of politicians has been going on at least from the time of Plutarch, the Greek essayist-biographer, who wrote some 1,900 years ago: "Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say and do in public, but there is busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other serious or sportive action...