Word: paean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball and football have long had their halls of fame, and now capitalism is about to get a showcase that will surpass them both. Called Enterprise Square, USA, the 60,000-sq.-ft. megastructure on the campus of Oklahoma Christian College (enrollment: 1,700) will be a paean to the free-market system when it opens this week. Attractions range from a 12-ft-wide cash register and 2-ft.-tall puppets to a video-game room where visitors can try their hand at running dozens of different types of firms. There will even be a Hall of Giants...
...pigeonhole the man, though to his credit Elvis no longer encourages it with infantile posturing. There was the soul-influenced Get Happy--E.C.'s testimony of allegiance to Black music. There was Trust and Taking Liberties and, of course, that much-spat-upon, thoroughly underestimated, straight-from-the-heart paean to Nashville and Elvis's love, country music--Almost Blue...
...like it (he may be right about this). So he has imported Doll Tearsheet from 2 Henry IV and interpolated a low-life scene from that play. And just before the end of the show, after the climactic Battle of Shrewsbury, Coe brings on Falstaff to declaim his long paean to the wonders of sherry sack--which also comes from the later play--and thus mars Shakespeare's carefully wrought conclusion. There are, too, some lines that have been moved from their proper place...
Many of you may want to avert your eyes during my final paean. Not only will it be treacle, but it's to an institution-The Harvard Crimson-the meant everything to me, and Doonesbury to you. I came to Harvard because of The Crimson, when they told me freshmen couldn't start coming until the semester was two weeks old, I was miserably. For The Crimson have travailed to 14 states and the Cambridge City Council chambers, which makes no sense on one level (who cares what Harvard's daily has to say about U.S. foreign policy...
...called in the city 'advancement.'... [and] if you keep putting some of them off, you may get away with having to do fewer of them in the end"), the habits of the turtle he has captured, and the strange fondness may have for sadism and masochism. As a paean to the endlessly intriguing things which cross Hoagland's path. "The Ridge-Slope Fox" works brilliantly...