Word: tennysons
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...listening classes, however, there is far less room for any discussion of a definitive right and wrong. In fact, it seems that because we will never know precisely what a Dickens or a Tennyson, a Mozart or a Michelangelo, a Hitchcock or an Ellington intended to convey, there is a certain humility inherent to the study of their arts. A premium is placed on digesting as much as possible in the way of opinion and suggestion; yours are as good as mine, and mine no better than hers...
...poet laureate of England (Tennyson, say, in the days when the post and poetry mattered) had been found guilty of plagiarism, it would be an interesting cultural scandal. To wear the valor decorations, as Boorda did, amounted to a kind of moral plagiarism--a theft of other men's honor, and therefore a debasing of the coin rewarding their courage...
THEY WERE KNOWN AS barnstormers, traveling players of deep voice and large gesture who declaimed on makeshift stages in small towns and villages in the 19th century. For one night only, they performed Hamlet's soliloquies and Tennyson's odes and transported the locals to a distant world. Last week, on a snowy New Hampshire evening, Pat Buchanan brought his one-man traveling show to the Victorian-era Opera House in the northern town of Littleton, a gemlike stage once graced by Mrs. Tom Thumb and Gorgeous George...
WHAT A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE! IN TENnyson's words: "Blind and naked Ignorance/ Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed,/ On all things all day long." VIRGINIA P. STEWART, Summerville, South Carolina...
...should recall that between the Renaissance and the 19th century Industrial Revolution, new communications technology, from the printing press to the telegraph, generally spurred mass political participation. True, today's Pollyannas could end up looking as foolish as the doomsayers of that era once did -- like Alfred Lord Tennyson, who gushed that the telegraph would result in ``war banners furled'' and a ``parliament of the world.'' Yet it is really our own century that has turned from enthusiasm for the benefits of science to a kind of techno-pessimism: instead of advancing participatory democracy, early radio and then television actually...