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Now, jump ahead thousands of years to Homer’s
Iliad traditionally dated to the eighth century BCE where the priest Chryses, harshly dismissed by Agamemnon, goes “in silence along the shore of the loud-roaring (
polufloisboio) sea.” Polu- is a common Greek and English prefix (as in polyglot). But
-floisboio is not so common, and much more remarkable: It strikes the ear like, well, a crashing wave or a lackluster imitation of one.
This noun from ancient Greek,
polufloisbos (here, in the nominative case), is onomatopoeic: a word that somehow imitates or suggests the sound it references. We tend to like such words. Think of
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Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, Havana, April 1993. Credit Gloria La Riva
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human rights attorney who stood against U.S. military aggression worldwide, died peacefully April 9 at his home in New York City, surrounded by close family. He was 93 years old.
As a pre-teen growing up in Albuquerque, I certainly knew his name and that he was attorney general. I could not imagine then that we would become friends, that I would have the honor of working with him and learning what a great humanitarian Ramsey Clark was.
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