Word: paean
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...school, he was at a Protestant school," James says, nodding to his cousin Rab, who has joined him in the bar. "Our mums are twins," adds Rab, without clarifying further. Allan's feelings about this division inform the album's haunting, hymn-like final track Ice Cream Van, a paean to a better place, a world free of sectarianism and hate. It's hard to imagine any other trendy indie band credited with nailing the zeitgeist writing something as bold as a message. But Glasvegas leave us with this one: "Bring back the glory days/ Active citizenship and pure community...
...jokes, Lieberman's 20-minute plea followed a folksy, flag-waving address by former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee. The big man with the muddy drawl, perhaps more famous for his "Law & Order" re-runs than for his legislative career, treated the delegates and guests to a populist paean to his pal McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska...
...Since becoming the presumptive nominee, nearly every step Obama has taken seems to underline the message that his brand of change is not threatening or even revolutionary. His first general-election ad, "Country I Love," is a 60-sec. paean to his Main Street normalcy. In it Obama extols policies designed to reach across the aisle, such as "cutting taxes" and "moving people from welfare to work." His initial choice of Washington power broker Jim Johnson to run his vice-presidential search was also traditional: Johnson had done the same job for John Kerry in 2004 and Walter Mondale...
...Which is why Clinton's ungracious and solipsistic speech on the night of Obama's triumph was so disappointing. She acknowledged Obama briefly, as a candidate but not as the nominee, then proceeded to a paean to her working-class supporters ... and to herself. "In the millions of quiet moments, in thousands of places, you asked yourself a simple question: Who will be the strongest candidate and the strongest President?" she said, and then repeated the dubious claim that she had "won" the popular vote. She may have considered this the opening salvo in a tough round of negotiation with...
This isn’t just some paean to my antisocial tendencies, but rather a testament to something that I think one rarely gets at Harvard: a second to breathe, alone, out of the spotlight of the relentlessly demanding student body. We live in crowded dorm rooms, we eat in communal dining halls, we participate in extracurricular activities to an almost unfathomable degree, and, when we’re not doing all that, we’re in sections with other people arguing about Durkheim or extracting DNA from strawberries. There is a strange pressure...