the hoi polloi
51masses — Synonyms and related words: cog, commonality, commonalty, creature, flunky, follower, hoi polloi, ignobile vulgus, inferior, junior, lightweight, lower class, lower orders, many headed multitude, mobile vulgus, pawn, second fiddle, secondary,… …
52pedantry — Fowler (1926) observed that the term ‘is obviously a relative one; my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education, and someone else s ignorance’. He referred to articles in his book and left the… …
53redundancy — • ‘She is lively and vital enough to be a member of a terrorist gang.’ ‘Lively and vital,’ said Harvey, ‘lively and vital one of these words is redundant.’ Muriel Spark, 1984. English idiom is characterized by redundancy, or apparent redundancy,… …
54Sidgwick, Henry — Sidgwick C.A.J.Coady Unlike John Stuart Mill or Jeremy Bentham, Henry Sidgwick’s is hardly a household name in intellectual circles beyond the world of professional philosophy. His standing amongst many contemporary moral philosophers as possibly …
55Slide rule — For other uses, see Slide rule (disambiguation). A typical ten inch student slide rule (Pickett N902 T simplex trig). The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick,[1] is a mechanical analog computer. The slide rule is used primarily for …
56David Blaine — Blaine in April 2008 Born David Blaine White April 4, 1973 (1973 04 04) (age 38) Brooklyn, New York, U.S …
57Pancho Gonzales — Ricardo Alonso González or Richard Gonzalez, (May 9, 1928 ndash; July 3, 1995), who was generally known as Pancho Gonzales or, less often, as Pancho Gonzalez, was the World No. 1 tennis player for an unequalled 8 years in the 1950s and early… …
58Zachariah Chandler — Infobox US Cabinet official name=Zachariah Chandler image width=230px order=12th title=United States Secretary of the Interior term start=October 19, 1875 term end=March 11, 1877 predecessor=Columbus Delano successor=Carl Schurz office2 = United… …
59Metroland (1997 film) — Metroland is a 1997 British film starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson. It was directed by Philip Saville and written by Adrian Hodges, based on the 1980 novel by Julian Barnes. Mark Knopfler wrote the score for soundtrack, supplemented by… …
60Tautology (rhetoric) — In rhetoric, a tautology is an unnecessary (and usually unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different words that effectively say the same thing twice (often originally from different languages). It is often regarded as a fault of style… …
