Word: rhetorician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real wit and imagination, Volpone and Mosca are exhilarating villains; their dupes are ludicrous victims. And Ben Jonson, the solidest playwright of his age, was possibly its finest rhetorician-a man who could give words color and weight, impact and grandeur...
When it was over some critics, as often, felt that Shostakovich was the most impressive of a generation of unimpressive symphonists. His detractors, as often, found him a pretentious musical rhetorician. A statement by Shostakovich declared that the symphony sought to express Soviet Russia's new optimism, and "the spirit of the new Red Army as it takes the offensive after discouraging retreat...
...opposite page, alas, we see a dreary, lamentable series of failures, nearly all avoidable and almost entirely due to bad strategy and haphazard planning at the top. Churchill, the brilliant rhetorician, Churchill, the astute politician, is akin in spirit to the fabled comedian who eats his heart out longing to star in tragic roles. He has always fancied himself in a martial capacity, for which his particular brilliant attainments are unsuited...
Writes Biologist-Rhetorician Donald Culross Peattie: "What science calls for today are life histories and ecological studies. . . ." So, while Seton's woodlore was never taken overseriously as science, science is moving his way. Meanwhile, bird feeders and fireside gun polishers can en joy Seton's accounts of moose hunts under golden moons, blue jays protecting their young by imitating hawk screams. And insomniacs may heed his observation, "a sheep's ears must point forward as he leaps...