Word: praiser
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...Harvard population is in accordance with the anonymous E-praiser, although it is less diplomatic. When asked about “Coltrane,” Professor Stopforth sputters, “That huge exploding painting...
...John Kenneth Galbraith in his new memoir A Life in Our Times: "Truth is not always coordinate with modesty." Perhaps, but then, truth is never coordinate with vanity. Self-praise is inescapably distorted and corrupted at its source, and this-not some arbitrary convention of etiquette-makes the self-praiser always seem at least ridiculous or fraudulent, and often worse. One must return to Reinhold Neibuhr for the key: "Since the self judges itself by its own standards, it finds itself good...
...large, his public ignored the Frost who quarreled with the world. They knew and praised instead the Frost who was a praiser of country things-the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ax blade, the road not taken, those woods lovely, dark and deep. For readers who like to shake a poem as children shake a piggy bank until the coin of meaning jingles out. Frost had pots of jingly messages. "Good fences make good neighbors." he said, and many a listener never noticed that he contraposed this with: "Something there...
...dust jacket. Kerouac is daffy and exuberant as he tells of working as an apprentice brakeman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, flunkeying on a freighter from Oakland to New Orleans, blasting exaltedly on O(pium) with a Mexican narcotics wholesaler. But the author is not wholly a praiser of his own beat-romantic past. He admits to behavior so much worse than square that it is cubic, or even tesseractical. He confesses, for instance, to paying his way to Europe and rubbernecking around the Louvre. Rembrandt and Franz Hals, he reports, are great...
...pioneer U. S. ceramist. On a shoestring budget Miss Olmsted has brought the show to national importance. Overjoyed was she in 1937 when a similar exhibition of U. S. ceramic art by European invitation toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and England, ceramic centres all, and won high praise. No mere praiser of museum pieces, Miss Olmsted is glad that many of he ceramists who enter the show are commercial designers, that the interest the show has inspired has spurred better design in mass production. Her aim: to remove from mantelpiece art the stigma of an inferiority complex...