Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government under law, Chief Justice John Marshall observed in the early 19th century, a judge must be "perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience." To help protect him from temptation, the framers of the Constitution created a free and independent federal judiciary, with life tenure, a handsome salary and protection from capricious removal or congressional retaliation. The judge's part of the bargain is implicit but clear. He is expected to adhere to moral standards far more stringent than those of the ordinary citizen. As Washington Attorney Joseph Borkin...
...present constitutional practice: that a candidate running second in the popular vote would get a majority of electoral votes, and that the failure of any candidate to get a majority would throw the selection of a winner into the House of Representatives. Both situations occurred in the 19th century...
...closely associated through the years, Pompidou and De Gaulle could hardly differ more in taste, temperament and approach to life. De Gaulle believed in the imperious exercise of power; Pompidou has promised to serve the nation as an "arbiter." De Gaulle spoke 19th century French and believed in the magic of being mysterious and aloof. Pompidou mingles easily with jet-setters and peasants alike, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling off-center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high...
Both the outsiders and the defectors are concerned that technological society is headed for what John Gardner calls "the beehive model"-a world of faceless bureaucracies and powerless individuals. One target is today's "multiversity," with its fragmented specialists, the antithesis of Cardinal Newman's 19th century idea of the university as a seeker of wholeness. Many intellectuals are also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work...
...milieu. Nothing is more exhilerating than philistine volgarity." It is thus appropriately ironic that Tom Wolfe started out with a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. Later, while working as a reporter in Washington, he discovered poor tenement families eating dirt; in the story that followed, Wolfe cited a 19th century American book that discussed the same phenomenon. Today, he concludes: "Boy, when you're in a position to give an historical parallel for dirt-eating, they think you're a genius...