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imagineer
noun
a person who is skilled in implementing creative ideas into practical form.
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There must be many millions of people who watched the TV show The Mickey Mouse Club, which began airing in 1955, and these same fans of The Mickey Mouse Club may also associate the word imagineer with the designers of Walt Disney鈥檚 theme parks (the original Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955). Imagineer, a blend of imagine and engineer, however, predates Disneyland by a good dozen years, first appearing in print on 1 June 1942, just before the Battle of Midway, in the very darkest days of World War II, in an upbeat advertisement, 鈥淧ostwar America 鈥� will be a great day for Imagineers.鈥�
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those who have followed this major imagineer since early baroque efforts like 鈥淰eniss Underground鈥� and 鈥淪hriek: An Afterword,鈥� or who know his lavish craft guide, 鈥淲onderbook鈥� … won鈥檛 find Aurora and its denizens to be such a departure.
Bernie and Connie Karl are imagineers who make good things happen in Fairbanks and throughout the state of Alaska.
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willyard
adjective
Scot. and North England.
obstinate; willful.
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Willyard (also spelled willyart) 鈥渙bstinate, willful鈥� is yet another Scots word designed to confound the English. Even the first syllable, will-, is misleading: it is not the English auxiliary verb will, used, for example, to form the future tense; nor is it the English noun will “the mental faculty, desire, purpose”; it is from the Old Norse adjective villr (stem vill-) 鈥渨ild, false, bewildered, erring, perplexed, uncertain.鈥� The second syllable, –yard or –yart, is anybody鈥檚 guess. Robert Burns uses the word once, 鈥淏ut, O! for Hogarth’s magic pow’r, / To shew Sir Bardie’s willyart glowr鈥� (1786), which guarantees the word鈥檚 survival; Sir Walter Scott also used the word in his Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818). Willyard entered English toward the end of the 16th century.
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“Uh! uh! uh!” ejaculated Dumbiedikes, as he checked the hobbling pace of the pony by our friend Butler. “Uh! uh! it’s a hard-set willyard beast this o’ mine.”
His disposition resembled that of the famous animal who carried Dumbiedikes so long and so well, but of whom Jeanie Deans remarked that he was聽willyard.
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irenic
adjective
tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory.
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Irenic 鈥減eaceful, conciliatory鈥� comes straight from Greek 别颈谤脓苍颈办贸蝉 鈥渂elonging to peace,鈥� a derivative of the noun 别颈谤岣梟脓. 贰颈谤岣梟脓 was also the name of the Greek goddess of Peace, the name of an 8th-century Byzantine empress, and the name of several Christian saints, whence the English female name Irene. The bewildering number of dialect forms (颈谤腻虂苍腻, 颈谤岣梟腻, 颈谤别颈苍腻, etc.) point to a non-Greek origin. Irenic entered English in the second half of the 19th century.
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When casual readers of poetry think about Heaney, his Irishness, his charisma, his connection to thousands of years of poetic tradition …, and his irenic political attitudes first come to mind.
After a presidential election that deserves the word it was given in headlines鈥�historic鈥攚elcome to the newly irenic but still newsworthy period in American politics that goes by the ancient Latin name of interregnum, 鈥渂etween reigns.鈥�
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