Word: extollers
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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...
CELEBRATE, v.t.: to solemnize; to honor or observe by refraining from business or by exuberant merrymaking; to proclaim, publish abroad; to extol, sound the praises of. Herewith a celebration of Jonathan Strong, a senior who in his long undergraduate nights has made himself a novella called Tike and five stories besides...
...somewhat clubby artistic community, nearly everybody knows Helen Frankenthaler as a charmer, a hostess and a presence. Back in the early 1950s, she was the brash, aggressive young girl friend of Clement Greenberg, the eloquent critic and self-appointed evangelist who has done the most to recognize and extol the genius of Jackson Pollock. For the past eleven years, she has been the wife of Robert Motherwell, and in a sense, Helen always seemed in the artistic shadow of her husband and other "first-generation" Abstract Expressionists. Thus it came as something of a discovery to learn that Helen...
...breathing exercise, he says softly: "As we inhale we will visualize ourselves taking in from the cosmos the life force. As we exhale, we will think thoughts of peace and light." Hittleman is assisted by "the lovely Diane," his wife, who "as the mother of our three children can extol the virtues of yoga for keeping things as they should be in the visceral area...
...Beard, which opened at a Greenwich Village theater last week, two characters made up as Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid swap repetitive obscenities for 60 minutes. To what end? If The Beard means to scandalize, it fails: its words are now numbingly familiar onstage. If it means to extol freedom of speech, it falters: its four-letter words express so little that they produce constraint of speech...