Word: rhetorician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that part of the American conscience that insists politics be a higher calling than it ever really is in practice. The ideal insists on a certain decorum of language in the mainstream and flushes out the rhetoric that does not belong there. It tends to flush out the rhetorician as well...
...discipline of writing has only one endowed professorship, the Boylston professor of rhetoric, who is not a rhetorician but a poet...
...neither a sterling rhetorician nor an inspired teacher, but he is, without question, the one player Harvard can always go to to pick up yardage...
Second, questions arose over the Kuwaitis' random arrest, torture and execution of alleged "collaborators," atrocities similar to some of the Iraqi actions which so sickened Bush the rhetorician...