Word: paean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garrett Epps' "Parting Shot" paean to the virtues of the C student and his expose of the moral turpitude and inhumanity of A students, warmed my anti-intellectual heart. It resurrected for me the treasured sage counsel of Sen. Roman Hruska, on the occasion of President Nixon's nomination of Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court, that we need more mediocre men in positions of power...
...informal White House gathering last spring, President Nixon delivered himself of a paean to his press secretary Ron Ziegler. Nixon added that Ziegler had the second toughest job in the country. "The toughest job in the country," he said, "is, of course, being press secretary to the Vice President...
...Sunday is a distinctly unconvincing celebration of motorcycle racing by Bruce Brown, who made the wildly successful surfing paean The Endless Summer in 1966. Brown's enthusiasm for his subjects is unbounded, and On Any Sunday shares with its predecessor a kind of gosh-all-fishhooks fascination with the rituals of sporting risk. But whereas The Endless Summer has marvelous scenery of rolling seas, On Any Sunday offers only roaring motors. For a very long 95 minutes, Brown unreels footage of racers: surging around a track or scrambling cross-country, gunning their motors to assault a peak in Utah...
...interested in everything, from the nap of a rabbit's fur or the extra legs on a mutant pig to the theory of human proportion. His graphic work was a sustained paean to the diversity of the world. There was often an edge of apocalyptic menace in the way he perceived it. He wrote a treatise on proportion, but he was shaken by portents, frightened by monsters and preyed on by nightmares?all of which he described and to some degree exorcised by drawing them. But his curiosity remained insatiable, and it drove him to constant journeying...
...South Viet Nam that Thieu is Washington's favorite. Last year, after all, Richard Nixon described Thieu as one of the "five or six greatest statesmen" in the world today. No matter how neutral the U.S. appears, Thieu is not likely to let the voters forget that overblown paean...