'A Modest Proposal,' the proposal, namely, that the misery of the poor in Ireland should be alleviated by the raising of children for food, like pigs, is one of the most powerful, as well as one of the most horrible, satires which ever issued from any human imagination.
Sometimes he uses apparently logical reasoning where either, as in 'A Modest Proposal,' the proposition, or, as in the 'Argument Against Abolishing Christianity,' the arguments are absurd.
WHO suggested that children of the poor should be eaten in his A
Modest Proposal of 1729?
I've just finished reading Steven Dietz's wonderful proposition for collaboration and artistic equality in development and presentation of works ("On Directing: A
Modest Proposal," March '07).
That plan was rejected by Liverpool council and the government, so Chieftain has drawn up a more
modest proposal.
I have a
modest proposal. Let's start at the beginning with all those thousands of starry-eyed young hopefuls who flock to local studios all over the nation hoping to live out the dancing dream.
The Table of Contents appears as follows: (1) Introduction, ( Peter Levine and James Youniss); (2) What Schools Should Do to Prepare Students for Democracy (William Damon); (3) A
Modest Proposal ( William A.
Unfortunately, such support for these problems no longer appears to hold the high ground in Congress--not when the maximum Federal Pell Grant has remained unchanged for four years (failing even to heed President Bush's
modest proposal for minimal $100 annual increases); not when unnecessary revisions to the Pell Grant tax tables resulted in untold thousands of recipients losing their awards entirely and many more facing reduced eligibility; and not when, for the first time, the costs associated with a national disaster are expected to be funded by mandatory deficit reduction and cuts in social safety net programs, including the federal student aid programs.
Graham denounced my
modest proposal as "ridiculous," and the product of forces that "hate God." All this bluster and name calling could be a cover for Graham who perhaps hopes that nobody notices that he has received a cool $15.6 million in federal funds since 2001, yet claims all relief efforts should have as their "primary purpose" to "share the redeeming love of the Lord Jesus Christ."
I have a
modest proposal that might shift the ground some in the war of words in the responsibility fight, a fight that restaurateurs and anyone in the alcohol business can expect to continue as long as they live.
The forest and the trees: A
modest proposal on bibliographic burnout.
I have a
modest proposal that might solve the problem to the satisfaction of liberals and conservatives alike.
Tauzin's
modest proposal was lost in the noise and fury that surrounded the failed efforts to pass some type of Medicare prescription drug benefit (although, at press time, it still had possibilities).
Of particular interest are Gelbspan's "Disinformation," wherein he tackles some of the doubters' arguments one by one, and his "Solutions." (See "A
Modest Proposal to Stop Global Warming," page 62.)
Modest Proposal, A (in full A
Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to their Parents, Or the Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to the Publick) A satiric essay by Jonathan SWIFT, published in pamphlet form in 1729.