Word: paean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with its remarkable cinematic control and invention and did for post-World War II cinema what D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation had done for cinema before the '40s." However, the old man's ghost soon walked again. By the later editions, Loynds' paean to Citizen Kane had vanished from the story on orders of the managing editor for "extreme editorializing...
...player or as an incredibly magnetic human being." Among other things, Joni is a focal point for elegance in a profession of rumpled informality A Persian carpet and a vase of red roses are de rigueur stage decorations for concerts. Most rock-concert performers, bored with singing their ultimate paean for the umpteenth time, wait for their own turns on the program in backstage trailers. But when Joni goes onstage, so do the other entertainers. Standing between speakers and behind amps, they become almost as enthusiastic as the ones who paid...
Kitchen No. 1 is geometric and blindingly yellow, a paean to plastic modernity. It is the pride of a feverish...
...about women, with emotion as honest as Merle Haggard's but a bit more realistic. Austin men are not suicidal; when a woman leaves, they survive. Michael Murphey is the most articulate lyricist. His new album contains a tune called Holy Roller, a tongue-in-cheek paean to Bible Belt religion that obliquely speaks to the question of loss of faith. Without doubt, the quintessential country rocker is Jerry Jeff Walker. His songs tend to be unpretentious autobiographical celebrations. For Jerry Jeff, life is "running naked in that high-hill country rain," and his spontaneity is the antithesis...
...Within two hours of the resignation speech, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler went to the podium of the White House briefing room for the last time to praise the "energy" and "intelligence" of the startled reporters before him. Ziegler had become the unhappy symbol of White House deception, and his paean to the press drew a few titters. But there was none of the rancorous repartee that had marked so many White House briefings during the previous two years...