Word: fancifulism
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Tomas Jirsa, a confident, gum-chewing 19-year-old from Prague, is standing on Kildare Street in Dublin, handing out leaflets and wearing a bright red vest that proclaims: I'm from the Czech Republic and against nice - ask me why. Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty...
WALL WALKING Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty, was of a very Chinese disposition: he liked walls, the longer the better. His affection for fortification was not merely fanciful: Zhu (also known as Hong Wu) spent 30 years at war with various warlords in his campaign to...
Those urging an attack on Iraq, however, see it as nothing less than a total remaking of the Middle East's geopolitical equation, rendering moot traditional concerns over the sensibilities of the "Arab street." In this view, according to the New York Times, is that "an Iraq under new governance...
The Latin Salutatory, delivered by Leah J. Whittington ’02, spoke of the search for truth. Her fanciful account of falling asleep in Widener Library and meeting Socrates in a dream elicited laughs from the graduates who could follow along in Latin or the English translation inserted in...
The Latin Salutatory, delivered by Leah J. Whittington ’01, spoke of the search for truth. Her fanciful account of falling asleep in Widener Library and meeting Socrates in a dream elicited laughs from the graduates who could follow along in Latin or the English translation inserted in...