Word: hectoring
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...knack of piling on pressure at the proper moment makes a man like Hector ("Toe") Blake hard to beat-at hockey, poker, or a business deal. The Montreal Canadiens' veteran left-winger (and poker player) is old enough (31) by peacetime hockey standards to be heading for the minors, but he still has plenty of the know-how that brought him the point-making crown back...
...constantly and insistently mingled in the Iliad. It is more than a war story of the Greeks, fighting on their beaches before Troy. Artful in detail, it is also awesome in implication. As the French scholar Rachel Bespaloff recently observed, the Iliad presents a civilized soldier, Hector, who has everything precious to defend, in contrast and finally in combat with the childlike yet superhuman fury which was Achilles...
...long till the sun had gone to its setting They had lamented for Hector with tears in front of the gateways, Had not the old man spoken from out of his car to the people...
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! Be bold!" and everywhere "Be bold;" "Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the deject; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn...
Hazlitt, who as a child intensely dis liked the U.S., was almost a U.S. writer. His sister happened upon one of 1782's best-sellers - J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. The Hazlitts were enchanted with its lyrical mixture of democracy and agriculture. Father Hazlitt, a struggling Unitarian minister, decided to emigrate. Soon Parson Hazlitt established Boston's first Unitarian church. But ill-health and parish problems (he would rather "die in a ditch," he said, than kowtow to his congregation) drove Parson Hazlitt back to Britain. Wrote...