Word: polymathic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works eight or nine hours a day on Volume III of his Metamorphoses of the Gods, and spends his rare moments of rest strolling through his elegant garden in Verrieres-le-Buisson with his two cats, named Fourrure (fur) and Essuie-plume (penwiper). Still French Polymath Andre Malraux, 73, took time out to visit the Louvre for a television tribute to Michelangelo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth. "Michelangelo invented the hero type. It had not existed before him, and he certainly did not discover it in antiquity, where it does not exist either...
...made a cogent point to President Kennedy "in his amusingly ironic way" and then apologized for a gloomy prediction, Kennedy replies: "John, you can't scold us often enough, and as far as I'm concerned, you are both an Aristotle and a Jeremiah, a polymath and a prophet...