What struck me about Oscar's musings was that while that once seemed an unassailable statement of fact, a pillar of truth upon which we could always lean and be supported, my bet is that if he were alive today he would revise his thinking, perhaps saying...the President reigns for four years but Journalism doesn't even make it to the inauguration.
When Helprin writes that "the right of property transcends the material and is in fact a pillar of ethics and morals"; that copyright, now under assault, "is and has been a bulwark of civilization"; and that its loss can only lead to a kind of national degeneracy, you know you're in jeremiad territory.
Mlinko portrays Hong as critically dismissive of Rich - in fact, a "pillar" of her argument against Rich's "directness" rests on this progressive argument in excerpting.
The relevance here is that Mr. Duchin, below, revealed to the multitude that the real-life model for one of his fictional characters, one Charlene Mitford Hogan Statz -- a pillar of San Francisco society -- is in fact Mrs. Shultz, a pillar of San Francisco society.
He also said Mexican immigrants had been portrayed unfairly as potential terrorists when they had in fact become a pillar of the American economy.
That, in fact, is a pillar of REDD finance and part of its beauty: it rewards indigenous people for acting as guardians of the rainforest, because it compensates them for being providers of an ecosystem service.
In fact, that is one reason the second pillar of Abenomics, its fiscal stimulus, is so important.
How did McFaul reconcile his desire to study at Oxford on a Rhodes, the interviewer inquired, with the fact that its benefactor, Cecil Rhodes, had been a pillar of white supremacy?
The fact that you are avant-garde together is a pillar of your friendship.
The answer lies in the fact that since the 1940's, the United States remains a major pillar of nuclear support here and around the world.
