forbearer

[Jonathan Lighter]

2008 Jay W. Baird _Hitler's War Poets_ (Cambridge: C.U.P.) 1: When naive
youth, like their mythical Greek forbearer Icarus, ...launched their own
flight to death.

Dr. Baird is Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University.

JL

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"There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
Platypus"

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