Miscellaneous collection of personal and political essays. My Web Log also contains a good deal of commentary on Much of this material is of interest to non-Episcopalians. Cross-listings are provided here to original poetry and hymns in the Poetry section,Īs well as some material in the Commentary area. ItĬhurch Resources is a collection of the spiritual, liturgical, and the pragmatic, including commentary onĮpiscopal and Anglican disputes. Here you willįind pre-retirement résumé and publication list.about me. Offers professional, rather than personal information. The sections of my Web site are described below: The sections are accessible through navigation buttons at the top left of this and other introductory pages. Lionel Deimel’s Farrago is organized into sections to help you find items of interest and avoid everything else. Responsible for this eclectic site, which offers material that should be of More specifically, I am an essayist and poet, a clarinetist and singer, a steam locomotive enthusiast, a cat lover,Ī liberal Democrat and liberal Christian. I have been a church activist, defending my church against the forces of The Episcopal Church long past my adolescence. (Sadly, there isn’t much railroad material here.) I am a Christian who, attracted by its music, liturgy, and tolerance, discovered I am a musician, photographer, writer, and railfan. I am interested in science and mathematics, in technology, history, and politics. I have always been a generalist, however. Now retired, but I have been a computer consultant and computer science professor. Lionel Deimel’s Farrago reflects most of my passions. Trivia-what you might expect from a farrago, which, according to theĭictionary, is a medley, conglomeration, or mixture. The New Yorker “Farrago” was also ’s Word of the Day forĪ diverse collection of information, opinion, fiction, poetry, and Moulin Rouge by David Denby in the issue of The New Republic, FebruWill the vogue use of “It is what it is” become fixed in the farrago of unresponsive responses? -From William Safire's “On Language” column of MaThe farrago of pop may make the period setting easier for kids to take, but it’s an experiment dictated by fear of committing yourself to any one sound, to any one composer’s imagination of love. Published at : 01:56 PM (IST) Tags: viral video Shashi Tharoor nagaland COngress Oxford Dictionary Follow Trending News on abp LIVE for more latest stories and trending topics.“Farrago”? Miller brilliantly exposes ID for what it is: a farrago of theological assertions and discredited scientific claims designed to inveigle a religious view of life into the biology classroom. The other wordsmith moments that sent social media into a frenzy have had Shashi Tharoor use words like "floccinaucinihilipilification", "farrago", and "troglodyte."īesides being a parliamentarian with an illustrious political career, Tharoor is also an author having written at least 23 books, one of which is a book titled 'Tharoorosaurus' where he mentioned 53 unusual words, elaborating their etymology or history with witty examples of their usage. My new book, THE PARADOXICAL PRIME MINISTER, is more than just a 400-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification. (Greek: Allo=different, doxo=opinion,phobos=fear Usage: “The BJP government in UP slaps sedition& UAPA cases on people because its leadership suffers from allodoxaphobia.” Word of the day, indeed of the last seven years: *Allodoxaphobia* Previously, Tharoor has taken a dig at the BJP using the word 'allodoxaphobia', which he explained as an irrational fear of opinions. It also caught the Thiruvananthapuram MP's attention who tweeted: "I'm always happy to take a good-natured joke in the right spirit, but this is getting too much! Come on, post the video of our conversation & let us challenge the audience to find three words I used that required them to look up a dictionary!" The video is garnering a lot of views and leaving netizens bemused to see the joke turn into a reality. In the video shared by him, a dictionary is seen on a man's lap as he pans the camera to Shashi Tharoor sitting on the stage. Bringing Dictionary along was just a joke statement until I saw this.
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