Word: encomium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fully the implications of Schumpeter's definition of imperialism as an "objectless, irrational, violent disposition toward indefinite, purposeless expansion." What is implied here is the problematical contrast between absolutism's quest of glory and aggrandizement as an end in itself and the rationally oriented calculus of bourgeois capitalism. Such encomium of the profit motive strikes me as no more realistic than the Marxist interpretation of imperialism...
...avoiding an exaggeration of his gruffness and (perhaps pretended) self interest. Elizabeth Dunne, as Hatter actress's maid, is fully as successful in her modest way, as her superior, and likewise for vocal reasons. She uses an impassionate monotone, which is expect comical when she waxes philosophic and hero encomium on the boys living alone, in being able to go have and find nobody waiting for you was the only line that stopped the play to around applause Phillip Reed as the snake and Alden Chase as the home body likewise left nothing to be desired in a highly diverting...
...Manhattan "in a sordid stall on the fifth floor of a dreary house," he kept himself and Pegasus fed by doing odd jobs, was once a construction inspector on the subway. Only U.S. poet ever reviewed by a U.S. President, Robinson got more attention when Theodore Roosevelt wrote an encomium of his poetry in the Outlook, and offered him a consulship in Mexico. Robinson declined the consulship, accepted a job in the New York Customs House, which he kept until his royalties grew big enough to support him. A shy, scholarly bachelor, he spends his winters in Boston and Manhattan...
...Lawyer Leibowitz brought to public attention an already well-known fact, Judge Lowell, sure of a share of the encomium which has been enthusiastically bestowed upon the denouncer of Alabama justice, has gone out of his way to keep the issue on the front page by releasing a Virginia negro facing extradition. While there is obviously much truth in his description of the farcical Southern trial system, Judge Lowell's faith in "Yankee commonsense" is only aggravating a situation which cannot be ameliorated by such a display of Northern sentiment, judicial or otherwise...
...masterpiece including the first Latin edition printed in 1516 and many early foreign translations. In this group also are to be found examples of More's works, of his studies and incidental writings. "Epigramma" and "Apologye" are two of the more outstanding of these incidental works, while "Moriac Encomium" of Erasmus, and "Mirrour of Vertue" and "Exposito Fidelis" are ancient analyses of the man's character and work...