Word: extoll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most pertinent attack of all came from inside the Review itself. In this week's issue, Editor Cousins took over the editorial page to criticize Critic Ciardi's criticism and to extol Anne Lindbergh. "He has given literalness far more sovereignty than it needs or enjoys in verse." wrote Cousins. "Nor can we accept the adjective 'illiterate' when applied to Mrs. Lindbergh or her books. There are few living authors who are using the English language more sensitively or with more genuine appeal...
...most of all, they will extol the advantages of working on the CRIMSON. They will tell you that a CRIMSON competition serves even better than Gen Ed A to improve your ability to express your thoughts simply and clearly...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker printed a translation of a poem composed to extol his war in Indo-China by Viet Nam's spaghetti-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh. In one stanza Ho seemed to allow that sometimes he lounged back in headquarters, boozing it up while his boys were out sniping at the French: "Leisure after work/on army affairs; autumn wind/ autumn rain and autumn cold/ Chills; then one hears/the sound of flutes/coming through the hills;/guerrillas have returned/and I rejoice that wine enough/ is left for them...
...Manlius School, a boys' college-preparatory school near Syracuse, N.Y., four years ago started an annual mathematics tournament, open to high-school students in upstate New York. Thought behind this project is to extol mental prowess in the same spirit that usually prevails on the athletic fields. Students from ninth to twelfth grades are eligible to compete. This year 801 high-school students, representing 73 high schools, took part in the tournament. High-school teachers, who laud the experiment, say that many of their students "aim for" the tournament throughout the entire year, whetting their interest in the subject...
...past year a mammoth road show, designed to extol and illustrate the glories of life in the Soviet Union, has been touring the great cities of Red China. With more than 11,000 individual displays, the Exhibition on Economic and Cultural Achievements of the Soviet Union has impressed capacity crowds in Peking and Shanghai with the wonder of such purported commonplaces of Russian life as nylon stockings, sable stoles, wristwatches, farm machinery, tractors, trucks, and ladies' high-heeled slippers...