“Crewel: Embroidery using colored worsted yarn. Common in England and the U.S. during the 18th and early 19th centuries, crewel embroidery was chiefly used for drapes and embroidery.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
“Free enterprise system: A term with political overtones used to describe an economy in which the initiative for production and consumption decisions lies with individuals and companies, and there is limited government regulation. See also MARKET ECONOMY.”
Excerpted from: Black, John, Nigar Hashimzade, and Gareth Myles. A Dictionary of Economics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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“To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged fiction/literature, humor, literary oddities
What is Daisy Miller’s real name? Annie Miller. She appears in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller (1878).
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
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“History would be a wonderful thing—if it were only true.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“Refugee Intellectuals: (1930-1940) During the 1930s, a galaxy of European intellectuals–authors, artists, scholars, scientists–fled European totalitarianism and found refuge, permanent or temporary, in the United States. Their contributions to the nation’s cultural life–and later to its war effort–were incalculable. The hundreds of refugee intellectuals included:
Excerpted from: Rosenbaum, Robert A. The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History. New York: Penguin, 2003.
“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“Disclaimer (noun): A specific denial or disavowal, especially an explicit public statement of nonresponsibility or nonaffiliation; protective explanation; waiver. Adjective: disclamatory; verb: disclaim.
‘She turns on “Heated Topics,” a feminist talk show so controversial that it begins with viewer-discretion warning and ends with a disclaimer.’ Mary Cantwell, The New York Times”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
“ageism: A term first employed by Dr. R.N. Butler, director of the American Institute for Aging in 1968. It refers to the negative stereotype of elderly individuals, which prejudicially describes them as senile, rigid in their attitudes and psychologically and socially dependent. Ageism has become important as a political issue with the greying of populations in Western societies. ‘New ageism’ refers to intergenerational conflicts where the elderly are condemned for being ‘takers’ and not ‘givers.’”
Excerpted from: Abercrombie, Nicholas, Stephen Hill, and Bryan S. Turner. Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Penguin, 2006.
“Abstraction-Creation: A group of abstract artists gathered in Paris in the 1930s—some of them exiles from Nazi Germany—which attracted representatives of all currents of Abstract Art, from Constructivism to Suprematism. The group issued an annual periodical by the same name.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
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