Week 14: vocabulary (children literature)
1. pantheon: the collective gods of a
people; also, a group of highly esteemed persons.
Well into the fourteenth century the Grand Duke of
Lithuania, Prince Gediminas, still put his faith in Perkunas, the god of
thunder and forests, who ruled over the many other gods and goddesses in the
Lithuanian pantheon.
-- Yaffa Eliach, There Once Was a World
Maggie drank a little too much and got surly and made
snide comments during the final toast.
-- John L'Heureux, Having Everything
With a fatidic clarity that comes only occasionally and
only to the young, she understood that . . . this too was a sign, an omen.
-- Kathleen Cambor, In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
Not then mistrust, but tender love, enjoins,
That I should mind thee oft; and mind thou me.
-- John Milton, Paradise Lost
Wesley's mind seems at this time to have been in a turbid
and restless state.
-- W. B. Stonehouse, The History and Topography of the
Isle of Axholme
But now the Senate is proposing to renege on the deal,
and the governors are furious.
-- By Judith Havemann, Washington Post, March 13, 1999
This is such an obvious, commonsensical truism that it
seems almost foolish to enunciate it.
-- Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism
The convert who is more punctilious in his new faith than
the lifelong communicant is a familiar figure in Catholic lore.
-- Patrick Allit, Catholic Converts
As usual, with all cooperation with Tom Lea, Art becomes
a "taking away" process rather than the adding of ornaments, rules,
and other foofaraw.
-- David R. Farmer, Stanley Marcus: A Life With Books
For cultures are not monoliths. They are fragmentary,
patchworks of autochthonous and foreign elements.
-- Anthony Pagden, "Culture Wars", The New
Republic, November 16, 1998
The bad news is that while most of us gambol in the sun, there
will be much wringing of hands in environment-hugging circles about global
warming and climate change.
-- Derek Brown, "Heatwaves", The Guardian, June
16, 2000
His tempestuous high school years are touched upon in a
delightful scene where the precocious Roy infuriates his English teacher by
trying to restore some of Shakespeare's saucier lines to that classroom's
bowdlerized study of Hamlet.
-- Herman Goodden, "A Few Scenes in the Life of Roy
McDonald", London Free Press, December 7, 2000
The plaintiff could therefore only recover payment for
her services if there was evidence of an implied or express contract by the
business of which he was a partner (or by the plaintiff personally) to
remunerate her for the work which she had done.
-- Kate O'Hanlon, "No damages for wife's gratuitous
work", Independent, May 27, 1999
Llinas compared these studies to phrenology, the
eighteenth-century pseudoscience that divided the brain into discrete chunks
dedicated to specific functions.
-- John Horgan, The Undiscovered Mind
This surprising success prompted several other companies
to enter this nascent market.
-- Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz
Conservatives have always opposed the independent counsel
as an extra-constitutional excrescence unmoored from any political
accountability.
-- "Enough", National Review, February 5, 2001
Bauxite is mined in only a few places. It is used to make
aluminum, iron, copper and dozens of refractory products such as the bricks
used to line blast furnaces.
-- Robert Goodrich, "Melvin Price Support Center's
Bauxite Will Be Sold", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 10, 2000
Most of the Kurds were Sunni Muslims, but perhaps a
quarter or a third adhered to heterodox varieties of Islam that preserved
traces of earlier religions.
-- Susan Meisalis, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
Painting America as a drug-ridden society leads to bad
policy -- as does the tendency in some quarters to conflate the various drug
abuses into a single dreadful statistic.
-- William Raspberry, "Not a Drug-Ridden
Society", Washington Post, April 21, 2000
Sometimes the computer bombinates way into the night,
stops for a bit of rest, then resumes its hum at the early hours of the
morning.
-- Cheryl Glenn and Robert J. Connors, New St. Martins
Guide to Teaching Writing
Hitler operated from Munich where he enjoyed a fair
degree of support, and it was here that his Putsch took place in an effort to
seize power in Bavaria.
-- Alan Jefferson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Most arresting of all, his normally gray elephant hide
has changed to a bilious shade of green.
-- Ellen Handler Spitz, Inside Picture Books
Then one day her daughter returns home with a foundling,
an abandoned baby boy.
-- Charles R. Larson, Washington Post, September 26, 1999
At 18, he attended a party "frizzled, powdered and
curled, in radiant pink satin, with waistcoat bedizened with gems of pink paste
and a mosaic of colored foils and a hat blazing with 5,000 metallic
beads," according to Michael Battersberry in "Fashion, The Mirror of
History."
-- Donna Larcen, "Details Details: Everything Old Is
New Again", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 19, 1994
One found oneself immersed in the infinitely nuanced tintinnabulations
of clapping cymbal rhythms passed from one player to the next, in the barely
audible, rain-like patter of drums that suddenly grew into an overwhelming
mechanical onslaught.
-- Tim Page, "From Japan, The Thundering Drums of
Kodo", Newsday, February 24, 1995
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