Word: paean
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING. CEroled the Herald Tribune. "New York's ALIVE again," said the Mirror. In a paean to the sweet scent of printer's ink. Hearst Columnist Bob Considine cooed...
Just how shaky these credentials are can be seen from Fromm's latest book, an account of his own intellectual devel opment and a paean of praise to Karl Marx at the expense of Sigmund Freud. In comparing the two thinkers, Fromm praises both for breaking new ground and taking a "dynamic" approach to human behavior. But while Freud uncovered the "individual unconscious," Marx revealed the "social unconscious," the forces at work changing society. Fromm came to a heretical conclusion for a psychoanalyst: "Marx is a figure of world historical significance with whom Freud cannot even be compared...
...Isolde from grief-no longer packs the emotional wallop it had for Wagner's generation. Indifferently played, the familiar music sometimes has an almost soporific effect. But at the Bayreuth Festival last week, audiences responded to a stunning new Tristan und Isolde that gave Wagner's paean to love some of the shock value it must have had when its composer trembled for his hearers' sanity...
Young Hal Holbrook, despite a dime-store beard, conveys the old age of John of Gaunt in both body and voice, though there is more to be had from his farewell speech, as grand a paean to England as ever was penned. As staged here, Gaunt walks slowly off stage in apparent good health; no sooner is the last of his gown out of sight in the wings when Northumberland (solidly played by Will Geer) bounds back into view to report Gaunt's death. Now Shakespeare is partly to blame, for he wrote only eight lines between Gaunt's last...
Uhuru reads like one long adolescent tirade against the black man in Africa. Not only that, but Ruark exalts the very thing he most fears from the liberated African: irrational violence. This book is a paean...