It was a fantasy pub, the repository of all the pub virtues at a time when traditional pubs were falling fast.
The qualifying phrase "or what we have always esteemed such" means that Emerson does not embrace an easy relativism, according to which what is taken to be a virtue at any time must actually be a virtue.
Graeme Virtue At any time, the British sky is populated not just by commercial aircraft but also enthusiastic amateur fliers, adventurers and oddballs, aerial traffic monitored using worryingly basic equipment by a small ground control team.
He stands as a vestige of dignity, virtue and character at a time when, according to a recent report by university presidents and educators, big-time football violates almost every value that higher education holds dear.
President Obama and former President George W. Bush found themselves on the same side of a public policy debate on Wednesday as they promoted the virtues of immigration at a time when Congress is considering rewriting the rules to accept millions here illegally.
But all critics have the vices of their virtues; Tynan's achievement, at a time when British theatre seemed, in Arthur Miller's phrase, "hermetically sealed from life", was to champion a drama anchored in social reality.
How ironic it is to hear CNBC commentators and other shills for whatever Wall Street wants on any given day trumpet the virtues of "free markets" at a time when banking Trusts and cartels are distorting and squeezing markets for vital commodities such as aluminum, copper, wheat, and oil.
Nevertheless, Rand's view of the unity of the virtues dictates that, even if we do not need to act on these virtues at all times, they are just as important to possess as the other virtues.
Calvin Klein and Donna Karan are both able to rise above the show-me-the-money look, by virtue of having built their empires at a time when it was fashionable to look as if you were powerful and busy, with interests beyond calories and lapdogs.
