Word: extollment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent issue of W, the biweekly tattler of taste and chic presided ever by John Burr Fairchild. Since it was launched three years ago last week by the graciously gossipy publisher of Women's Wear Daily and seven other trade publications, W has toiled relentlessly to depict, extol and embody that elusive trait. This year alone, W has identified everything from Quality People (Queen Elizabeth, Elliot Richardson, Julia Child, the Due de Brissac, Sir Cecil Beaton and 33 others) to Quality Bread (Poilane and Panetier, two Paris boulangeries). Quips a Fairchild Publications art director: "Pretty soon...
...power structure"? Why is it objectionable that our "leaders" are "above all, smooth and in control"? Why are they blamed for dressing well, or for the names of the Sheraton-Boston's conference rooms? Why are they blamed for their home towns? Why does Mr. Lemann extol slickness and worldy wisdom? Why is not cutting corners on quality wrong? Why does Mr. Lemann assume "the bewildering assortment of bureaucratic titles" of our staff is any less meaningful than The Crimson's bewildering assortment of editors...
...observing that Sholokhov's other fiction (Seeds of Tomorrow, Harvest on the Don) is strikingly inferior to The Quiet Don, which was completed in 1940. It became the best-selling Soviet novel in the U.S.S.R. (6 million copies translated into 40 different Soviet languages), and Soviet textbooks extol it as the supreme literary accomplishment of Communism. The book continues to be widely read in Soviet schools...
...ironic that those who extol upon the wonders of Israeli "democracy" advocate repression as a means of solving the Palestinian problem. It is ironic that they cite Lebanon as the villain in the current wave of terrorism, never raising the question of what 300,000 Palestinians are doing in Lebanon in the first place...
...backbone of society and the ultimate arbiters of change, but history is apt to judge them differently. For change conies from those who care, who propose and agitate, modified by those who care differently and oppose; the rest is inertia. The inert middle is not what Aristotle meant to extol...