Word: encomiums
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...restaurants are to Valencia what sushi bars are to Tokyo or pizza parlors are to Naples. We give you four of the best: LA PEPICA This venerable beachfront restaurant, tel: (34-96) 371 0366, is in its 107th year and remains a Valencian institution. Ernest Hemingway made a lengthy encomium to it in the notes for his novel, A Dangerous Summer. RACO DEL TURIA The traditionalist's choice, Raco del Turia, tel: (34-96) 395 1525, serves paella and other time-honored Valencian dishes without a whit of concession to modern mores or methods. A cozy and intimate setting. CASA...
...PEPICA This venerable beachfront restaurant, tel: (34-96) 371 0366, is in its 107th year and remains a Valencian institution. Ernest Hemingway made a lengthy encomium to it in the notes for his novel, A Dangerous Summer...
...upstage Vladimir Horowitz in recital is to fall off the stage. Last week at the White House, the eminent pianist, 82, had just finished a dazzling performance, his first in the U.S. since his triumphant return to the Soviet Union last April, and the President was delivering an encomium linking the worlds of music and superpower diplomacy. As Nancy Reagan listened, the leg of her chair slipped off the edge of the platform, and she pitched into a row of potted yellow chrysanthemums. "I'm all right," she hurriedly reassured everyone. "I just wanted to liven things up." She regained...
...thesis, “Eulogy and Encomium: The Dual Purpose on the Normannicus Draco,” Ciardiello examined a relatively unstudied medieval Latin poem...
...about rediscovering community in a culture that lionized the individual. Even the dark drama Six Feet Under features a gay character finding solace in, of all uncool places, his church. Most conspicuous is the World War II mania, from Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's encomium The Greatest Generation right up to this fall's HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which has rolled boomer reconnection with parents, guilt over easy prosperity and a longing for communal purpose (be careful what you wish for) all into one trendlet...