Word: exalt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town fathers incriminate themselves: the rich doctor objects that Marcy is taking money from the purses of honest physicians with her free toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells of tubercular prisoners in the penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind to a halfwit, that she soothed an unjustly condemned...
...attacked with visible annoyance the kind of "political aloofness" that subverts the federal idea. "The fashion has been to exalt the detached surveyor of the cluttered political scene untroubled by the noisy turmoil beneath him...uncontaminated by the touch of reality." The need to "sharpen the debate between parties and within the parties...is denied or evaded by a condescension or contempt for the political life...
...Hamilton confided to a friend: "My Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and the condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station. I shall Conclude saying I wish there...
Like "fool," "phony" and "reactionary," the term is arbitrary, part of a category that everyone may populate to suit his own bias. But in general, a book is a contrivance of ink, paper and glue, whose purpose is to instruct, amuse, edify, exalt, infuriate or pander. It may be good or bad, but its author intended it to be good. and wrote it by putting word after word. The nonbook is usually not written at all but assembled with the help of scissors or tape recorder or some other mechanical device. The concern of the nonbook manufacturer is not that...
...fact that the show opened first in Milan was only fitting, for it was there that in 1910 five rebellious painters issued a manifesto to the young artists of Italy. "We propose," they declared, "to exalt every form of originality, even if reckless, even if over violent." The futurist movement never became quite so reckless as its manifesto sounded, but for a time, at least, it did have Italy on the brink of artistic civil...