Word: barbarianism
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...When Harvard gave an honorary degree in 1833 to Andrew Jackson, Alumnus John Quincy Adams, assailing Jackson as "a barbarian who could hardly spell his own name," raised such a row that Harvard kudized no other President for 39 years (Grant was the next...
...Odessa, the war-reduced population (normal: 600,000) scanned the leaflets which read not unlike the manifestoes of the late great barbarian Genghis Khan: "The main forces of my Army are at the gates of the city and other large units are following them. Do not offer resistance. Surrender the city. I promise mercy to the population. Otherwise, when I do take Odessa in two days' time, I shall show no mercy to anyone...
...times ex-Senator Rauschning's book has a querulousness that suggests not Newman but the Roman ex-Consul Boethius (circa 480-524), who in The Consolation of Philosophy complained of his enemies while awaiting execution after his Rauschningesque failure to cooperate with the Barbarian Ostrogoths. He also has some of Boethius' wordiness, and indulges a nostalgic yearning for his farm and blooded heifers, which he lost when the Nazis raised a sign: Rauschning, traitor to the people, lives here...
Said young Hanfstaengl, "I feel purged of the ideas which were on the way to making me a Hitler barbarian. It's wonderful to live where you can sit on a park bench and read Heine and other authors barred by the Nazis...
...Darius III (circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects a crown ("I must view with abhorrence"). Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby, whose sons had been killed in battle ("I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine. . . ."). Emerson hails Walt Whitman...