Word: anglo-saxon
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...White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, middle class voters expect moral standards to rise with prosperity, he said. Wilson attributed their resentment of the federal government to increasing crime which, he said, is a result of higher incomes and more personal freedom...
...past, Professor Orlando Fals-Borda of the National University of Columbia discusses upheavals of the present in Soc Sci 117, "Revolutionary Forces in Latin America." Few will want to miss the "History of the Book" (Hum 122), it may be their only chance to visit Houghton Library. Eng 200a, "Anglo-Saxon Poetry" gives one of the colleges best lectures, William Afred, a podium to display his wares on more limited topics than those to which he is accustomed in Hum 2 or English 10. A long shot: Naval Science 53, "The History of Amphibious Warfare...
...this Mass tried to avoid thee-thy-thou forms. Nevertheless they slipped up: the Lord's Prayer still goes, "Thy kingdom come." Other parts have a ring of transliteration, rather than translation, from Latin. "Priests who translate the Mass have a tendency to use Latin derivatives, whereas Anglo-Saxon is generally shorter and sharper," said one Benedictine monk...
...week, it was at least a much different one. It spoke with the accents of small-town America. Its muscle came no longer from the moneyed influential East, but from the South and the West with their oil and aerospace industries. And, remarkably, although the party is predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, it chose as its candidates Barry Morris Goldwater, 55, who is half-Jewish, and William E. Miller, 50, who is a Roman Catholic...
...this loose federation scheme is mainly a convenient but thin disguise for what they really want-a German-French axis, independent of the U.S., that would enable Germany to carry on a far more nationalistic policy. Mostly Roman Catholic in faith and cultural tradition, they are suspicious of the Anglo-Saxon, Protestant world; above all, they fear that the current relaxation between Washington and Moscow is being achieved at the expense of eventual German reunification...