Word: paeans
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...tired, bitter man, racked with illness that will not leave him, "red gallus" Talmadge stumped the rural counties of Georgia, the "cracker country," hoarsely shouting his paean of white supremacy and fanning the flames of race hatred. He stuck to the back country, because it has always been Talmadge territory, and because he knew that in Georgia it's country units, not popular votes, that win elections. By last night, Talmadge had 249 units in his pocket, with only 206 necessary for election...
...evangel. ("Time need not be wasted on Conservatives, since time itself will take care of them." "A Liberal is [a person] who puts his foot down firmly on thin air.") Society's crisis called for Radicals. The first part of Reveille for Radicals is a paean to the Tom Paine type of U.S. Radical. But even Radicals must first be awakened: "Deep in the cradle of organized labor America's Radicals restlessly toss in their sleep-but they sleep...
...laurel, the palms and the paean, the breasts of the nymphs in the brake...
...jawed, happy Messiah whose 'new deal' would somehow put money into everybody's pocket." He was Man of the Year again after the Congressional election in 1934, when "the voters' verdict was not a mere stamp of approval; it was a paean of acclamation"-and he was Man of the Year for a third time after Pearl Harbor made him America's sixth wartime President, the leader of the nation in a deadly war of survival...
...Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath for the Sea, Marianne Moore's Nevertheless. But 1944 also witnessed the emergence of a new popular poet of high quality. Russell Davenport's My Country, a simple, eloquent, sometimes patriotically overcharged paean to American destiny. ran up the astonishing (for poetry) printing total of 30,000 copies...