Word: extoll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEY HAVE developed rituals for teaching everything here in dear old dusty academe, and Lawrence is no exception. For you can't just read a novel by Mr. D. H. Lawrence; no, that would be to elude the proper ritual. Instead, you must first listen to Sectionm?? extol the importance and uniqueness of Lawrence's place in English lit. Then you must nod in understanding agreement as Sectionman points out Rogaine imagery and influence from Mr. Lawrence's "real life." And, finally, just as somewhere in yourself you begin to feel that Lawrence really is pretty great, quite uncanny...
Especially among the young there is always a tendency to extol opposites. Just as many American youths seem to yearn for the collective, nonmaterialistic life, many young people in Communist countries seem to admire some (but by no means all) of the individualism and the material benefits of Western society. Today, Communism is splintered, Marxian orthodoxy in tatters. Nevertheless, the Communist view of man still has a powerful and self-perpetuating hold in those societies where it has become part of the culture-and it is still a vast distance removed from anything that American society would accept...