Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York University. Historian Theodore Kovaleff of Barnard College disagreed: "Carter went in a clear leader and he came out looking terribly poor." Asked who won, Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti replied with a derisive comment on the audio breakdown, "The Luddites," a reference to the early 19th century workers who smashed machines in protest against industrialization. Added Masotti: "Carter came across as a Southern Baptist preacher, and Ford was reciting high school platitudes. I may not go to the polls in November. I just can't get up for this." Douglas Fraser, director of the United Auto Workers' political...
...difficulty lies in the two drastic sea changes the word liberal has undergone. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it meant laissez-faire. One of the Commentary contributors, William F. Buckley, quotes Woodrow Wilson as saying that the history of liberalism is the history of man's efforts to restrain the growth of government. Franklin Roosevelt, of course, gave liberal its new meaning: the use of what has become Big Government to redress society's inequities. Herbert Hoover objected not only to F.D.R.'s policies but also to his theft of the word liberal. Barry Goldwater...
...center of town is the courthouse of Pittsylvania County -named after William Pitt the Elder, who was the Earl of Chatham. Chatham boasts the elegant, Episcopal-run Chatham Hall school for girls on one side of town and the Hargrave Military Academy on the other, as well as 19th-century wooden houses with broad front lawns and wide verandas...
That is a historical irony. Before the rise of Protestant liberalism in the 19th century, when scholars began to question such keystone doctrines as the deity of Jesus and his resurrection, U.S. Protestantism was generally evangelical. Then came the Civil War and in its wake, the growth of Northern cities and the drift of Northern Protestantism into a more liberal camp...
Whose Lips? Though incapable of love, the extreme narcissist is likely to project his own idealized version of himself onto another person, then worship it for a while. A 19th century example: Herman Melville's attempt at "narcissistic merger" with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melville wrote Hawthorne: "By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips-lo, they are yours and not mine...