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October 16, 2009 By Daniel M. (Bowling Green, KY)

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  1. ephemeron
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
    The reader of this book, then, is to take these essays not as ephemera, but as political and social criticism worthy of survival in their own right.
  2. ephemera
    something transitory; lasting a day
    The reader of this book, then, is to take these essays not as ephemera, but as political and social criticism worthy of survival in their own right.
  3. Minoan
    of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete
    It is not inconceivable that, thirty years from now, Americans seeking to understand the curious moods of the 50's and 60's may find in Rumbles Left and Right a sturdy thread to lead them through the Minoan labyrinth of political and literary controversy in the times of Eisenhower and Kennedy.
  4. knight-errant
    a wandering knight travelling in search of adventure
    A BORN debater, Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr. has made himself into a formidable knight-errant of twentieth-century politics and letters.
  5. tallow
    obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants
    As Pope immortalized in The Dunciad a crew of poetasters who otherwise would have been snuffed out like tallow drips, so Buckley may preserve in the amber of his humorous invective a collection of insects that otherwise would have been consigned to the trash burner of remorseless fate.
  6. invective
    abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
    As Pope immortalized in The Dunciad a crew of poetasters who otherwise would have been snuffed out like tallow drips, so Buckley may preserve in the amber of his humorous invective a collection of insects that otherwise would have been consigned to the trash burner of remorseless fate.