Word: paean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jawed, happy Messiah whose 'new deal' would somehow put money into everybody's pocket." He was Man of the Year again after the Congressional election in 1934, when "the voters' verdict was not a mere stamp of approval; it was a paean of acclamation"-and he was Man of the Year for a third time after Pearl Harbor made him America's sixth wartime President, the leader of the nation in a deadly war of survival...
...Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath for the Sea, Marianne Moore's Nevertheless. But 1944 also witnessed the emergence of a new popular poet of high quality. Russell Davenport's My Country, a simple, eloquent, sometimes patriotically overcharged paean to American destiny. ran up the astonishing (for poetry) printing total of 30,000 copies...
Died. John Steven McGroarty, 81, one time Congressman, so-called "Poet Laureate" of California; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The outstanding Congressional spokesman for the Townsend Old-Age Plan, he turned out much topical verse. Sample (from a rhapsodic paean to Mrs. Roosevelt) : "What seeks the Lady Eleanor...
...from his native Erie. The Erie Club of New York sent him a silver-banded cane. Fellow parishioners presented a $1,500 check. New York's Bishop William T. Manning made a speech. The choir broke into Burleigh's deft, contrapuntal choral ode, Ethiopia's Paean of Exaltation. In a baritone that was still vibrant, Harry Burleigh himself sang Go Down Moses...
From Moscow came another sign that the Soviet cycle from world revolution to nationalism had run its course. On the eve of Joseph Stalin's 64th birthday, the Soviet Union ditched the stirring, incendiary Internationale as the State anthem, substituted an awkward paean to Stalin and the New Russia...