Word: exhortation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laughter, in turn, can make for bitter or even bigoted criticism. Rodman, aware of the danger, does not hesitate to belabor some people in his own party. Among others, Rodman sideswipes A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who last summer took full-page ads in six Manhattan dailies to exhort against modern art and supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand of art a specific 'moral answer' is just as unreasonable as to insist, as some...
State or Seat? To find the best illustrations for each word, he combed his own library, plowed through stacks of borrowed books. But he soon realized that to be a judge of correctness was no easy job. "So commonly," he noted, "but not always, we exhort to good actions, we instigate to ill we animate incite and encourage indifferently to good or bad. So we usually ascribe good but impute evil, yet neither the use of these words nor perhaps of any other in our licentious language is so established as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers...
...fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort...
...very rare indeed in the early years for an issue of the Bulletin to neglect to congratulate, console, or exhort some Crimson athletic team...
...Right Ahead." For the first time in five months, the general had come out of the rural isolation of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (pop. 312) to exhort his withering but still formidable army into renewed assaults on the French government and its policies. For France's most powerful ally, he had recrimination: "The U.S. wishes to hold in check the Soviet block-but not engage its own troops . . .They sent money and material to Indo-China-but left the French to do the fighting. They are ready to arm any country to fight the Russians-and if necessary command...