Word: delphic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sears says he believes this has prevented theBee from joining the Council. "That's notsomething the Bee members would like," he says."The women in the club aren't willing to say thatthey won't go to the Delphic or the Phoenix. Theydon't want their life at the College to berestricted in that...
...Walt Whitman or Gerard Manley Hopkins or Hart Crane--or Theodore Roethke, who was one of Dickey's favorites. But Dickey was himself--a now and then wild American, good at putting his own myths in motion and intoxicated by the English language. English professors called him "Orphic" or "Delphic," a prophetic delver, with an eye for nature and, interestingly, for the sometimes violent meanings of machines (cars, fighter planes). At his best, in the poems he wrote from the late '50s to the early '70s, he produced work of a virile and transformative splendor...
...same breadth, the leader of public opinion. Those who administer our physical life, also administer our spiritual life. He is, in Woodrow Wilson's words, "the spokesman for the real sentiment and purpose of the country." He is thought of by people as a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen and father of the multitudes. The framers of the Constitution took a momentous step when they fused the dignity of a king and the power of a prime minister in one elective office--when they made the president a national leader in the mystical as well...
...Crooked-straight. This is all a bit Delphic, even coming from someone who is widely acclaimed by his peers--at least for publication--as a visionary. To have a conversation with the man himself is to be instructed in the art of seeing both sides of an equation. He thinks the Internet has been oversold, yet he's visibly excited about his equity interest in the Internet Shopping Network, an online retailer. He claims to despise hype and yet is manifestly adept at its use. He thinks Beavis and Butt-head are, as he once told Rolling Stone, "breathtakingly horrible...
Questioning these two gets Lituma nowhere. Adriana's replies are particularly obscure and Delphic: "All these hills are full of enemies. They live inside. Day and night they weave their evil schemes," she tells him. After listening to such divinations, Lituma mordantly imagines the report he might telegraph back to his headquarters about the missing men: "Sacrificed in manner as yet undetermined to placate evil spirits of Andes, stop. Written in lines of hand, witness claims. Case closed, stop...