Prospero PRONUNCIATION: (PROS-puh-roh) MEANING: noun: Someone who is capable of influencing others behavior or perceptions without their being aware of it. ETYMOLOGY: After Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan and a magician, in Shakespeares The Tempest. Earliest documented use: 1785. USAGE: Melliora is the Prospero who engineers a return to social order entirely in accord with her desires. David Oakleaf (ed.), Eliza Haywood; Love in Excess; Broadview Press; 2000. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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