festooned with American flags and encomiums to Abraham Lincoln
I think it should be encomia but maybe that's just a colloquial version?
the hardening of a gerontocratic ruling elite
The measure consists of a unity, whose aliquot parts express a certain quantity.
Up to this point the theory of utility was able to base itself on definite social facts; its further account of the manner of exploitation amounts to a mere recital of catechism phrases.
ideological prosopopoeia is having a heyday: the markets have started to talk again as living persons, expressing their 'worry' at what will happen if the elections fail to produce a government with a mandate to continue with the programme of fiscal austerity
