Word: paean
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...ability of average people, succumbs to cultured intellectual cynicism or sophisticated anti-democratic snobbery, we should pause to appreciate the beauty and promise of these reforms. The unprecedented march of democracy, the echoes of which can be heard worldwide, validates and vindicates President Bush’s inaugural paean to liberty and democracy, the promise of “ending tyranny in our world...
...might be a connection between the dispute and productions that have endorsed leftist views or attacked the conservatism of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The National's Pravda, for example, seems to say that the worst sin of Fleet Street is generosity toward Thatcher. The R.S.C.'s Today is a paean to men who abandoned their homes and families to fight as Communists in the Spanish Civil...
...Krauthammer's breathless paean to Bush's clairvoyance in orchestrating an unprecedented springtime of democracy in the Middle East would be far more convincing if in fact it had been premeditated. The rationale for the war in Iraq was never altruism or spreading the gospel of democracy. Rather, it was the clear and present danger of Saddam's arsenal of deadly weapons. Let's give credit where it's due, but please, spare us the notion that Bush had any idea what he was getting us into. Edmund C. Tiryakian Hong Kong...
...Cuban-born novelist known for his offbeat humor and vivid evocations of pre-Castro Cuba; of a blood infection; in London. An exile since the early 1960s, he was best known for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres (later published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), a loving, pyrotechnic paean to the energetic night life of old Havana...
After confessing his love (both explicitly and implicitly) for artists as disparate as Os Mutantes, Prince and James Taylor, Beck begins 2005 with a paean to…Nintendo? This 4-track internet-only EP (intended as a hors d’oeuvre of remixes before next month’s full length Guero) is singularly devoted to the noise of obsolescent gaming technology. The rainbow electronics and 8-bit rhythms back Mr. Hansen’s characteristic non-sequiturs, just like the chaotic but impeccably-produced sounds of his past ventures into noisy, guitar-driven rock (Odelay) and funk...