Word: brattism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...discontent and insecurity have causes beyond spoiled-brattism. Many people seem to have a dim but accurate sense that some of the trends that enabled them to pursue the good life despite declining real wages are stagnating or even reversing...
...decade and a half, striving always to keep Sweden in the middle road of individual liquor control. The last straw vote of Swedish prohibition societies (in 1922) showed that the 1,800,000 Swedes who wanted total prohibition in 1909 have dwindled to 889,000; while the cohorts of Brattism have swelled from 20.000 to 924,000. Thus the fight is just beginning...
Essence of Brattism: "Impose reasonable conditions and enforce them . . . firmly. . . . The control of liquor must be human, not superhuman; firm, not rigid; slow, not fast; democratic in aims, but individualistic in application...
| 1 |