Word: paean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very likely, you can sing a chorus, along with all the Lauper loopies who cover the age spectrum, from dress-alike five-year-olds to grannies gone groovy: All Through the Night; She Bop, which inverted Gene Vincent's classic Be-Bop-a-Lula into a thoroughly unapologetic paean to female autoeroticism; Time After Time; and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a kind of antic feminist anthem that helped get Cyndi on the cover of Ms. as one of its women of the year. No other woman has made an album at any point in her career that launched...
...morning that Ronald Reagan stood under the Capitol dome and delivered his Inaugural paean to boundless opportunity, Leander V. Gilmore, 61, of "no fixed address," was found frozen to death in an abandoned house a few miles away. The cold was kinder to many others of the capital's 10,000 or so homeless. When the icy weather kept home Inaugural partygoers, several of the hosts, including a bank and a law firm, donated their uneaten goodies to the poor. Outside a Washington shelter for the homeless, ragged street people gaped as a purple van from Ridgewell's ("caterers...
...Talking Heads turns a fine hand to synthesizers on one of the album's best cuts, Chasing the Night-but their songs are as funny and full of 360-degree mockery as ever. Endless Vacation, which sounds like a sort of Beach Boys pastiche, is in fact a paean to homicidal teen angst that features this reflection on the mutability of contemporary existence: "Like takin' Carrie to the high school prom/ something's always goin' wrong." The Ramones are the philosopher kings of nerddom ("Every one's a secret nerd/ Every...
...these past four years, not one inch of territory has been lost to Communist aggression." He ticked off his accomplishments in cutting taxes and lowering inflation and interest rates. He claimed credit for creating 6 million new jobs. And he invariably concluded with an ode to youth and a paean to the American spirit: "We were born to a special place between these two great oceans with a unique mission to carry freedom's torch to a tired and disillusioned world. We have always been a light of hope, where all things are believed to be possible...
...ignited, a sense of optimism (like pessimism) can be self-fulfilling: the U.S. has cheered up partly because enough Americans willed such a change. It is the power of positive thinking writ large. "Magic takes over from reason at such times," wrote Author Gail Sheehy last month in a paean to the new mood. Christopher Reed, writing more acidly about the Olympics for Britain's weekly Spectator, found Americans "feeling proud about their pride." Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion? When it comes to a subject as ineffable as the mood of America...