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...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...
Although I had suggested some ideas for my introduction, I was as surprised as the other 1,914 people in the stadium to hear all three minutes of them read over the p.a. The endless encomium consisted of sentences like "Mr. Stein is an active participant in many clubs and organizations" and "Although in previous first pitches he has been accused of scuffing the ball, Mr. Stein would like to point out that nothing has ever been proved." There was no laughter...
...Oxford camp can go into admirable contortions explaining why Shakespeare's friendly rival Ben Jonson, in an encomium in the 1623 First Folio, calls the deceased Bard "the swan of Avon" (a conspiracy, they say). But their gravest problem is the existing poetry of De Vere himself. It is competent yet uninspired. The 20 or so poems may be juvenilia, but there is neither spark nor promise to the lines, too full of alliteration, all too devoid of depth. "Fram'd in the front of forlorn hope past all recovery,/I stayless stand, to abide the shock of shame...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 address to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society bears serious consideration by today's Harvard students. The address is an encomium to the title-less man and an attack on the institutional one. It is praise for those famous men who become famous of their own doing, who arrive at their own conclusions, who stand on feet unbuttressed by typical modes of external recognition...
...baseball connoisseurs who worship him. Listen to this encomium by Serious Baseball Person and Washington Post writer Thomas Boswell: "Mark McGwire, Griffey and the rest are fabulous, but there have been others like them throughout history. It's possible, and becoming more probable with each amazing season of legerdemain, that there has never really been anybody like Greg Maddux." Indeed, Boswell said Maddux may be "the most remarkable and historically important player in baseball." Ever? Yes, ever...