Word: cannoneering
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...there mixing all the time, but it is the reportorial press that has the problem. Reagan uses anecdotes to great political effect in his speeches, pat-a-caking them into neat, sugar-coated homilies, but his facts often turn out to be wrong. Lately, according to Lou Cannon of the Washington Post, two sets of Jewish leaders have described a story told them by the President: he had been a member of an Army unit that photographed Nazi camps and therefore would never forget the Holocaust. Cannon, who as a Reagan biographer knows him well, says the President "spent...
...allay the great sorrow of Irish history. Sometimes Heaney confronts it head on, as in "Requiem for the Croppies," composed in memory of the Catholic farm boys who fought the Protestant armies nearly two centuries ago, "on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave," where "terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon." Even these acrimonious lines have not satisfied some Irish nationalists who criticize him for refusing to write anti-British broadsides. Counters Heaney: "The job of the artist is to make works of art, not to be involved in one cause or another...
...Dallek's Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism, shows this psychological mastery to be the principal Reagan strength. Reagan is portrayed in the "ideologue as politician," a package of symbolic responses that fit an American need to feel good. Unlike other more traditional books on Reagan--for instance, Lou Cannon's Reagan--Dallek's is a psychological portrait that seeks to explain Reagan's image of himself and the image he portrays to others...
There are those people in the world who object to against him and one cannon wholly blame them Agitation after all is unpleasant. It means that while you are going on peaceably and joyfully on your way some half-mud person insists upon saying things that you do not like to hear. They may be over but you do not like to hear them...it is not always pleasant to nice ears to hear a man ever coming with his dark facts and unpleasant conditions. Nevertheless it is the highest optimism to bring forward the dark side of any human...
...calls "mankind's need to know." Such a history leaps the barricades of class and race and nation to show the awakening of our collective intelligence. It affirms the powers of discovery to build in the face of man's powers to destroy. Instead of the crossbow or the cannon. Boorstin tells of the printing press, the telescope, and the microscope...