Word: bryce
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...James Bryce, The American Commonwealth...
...circus, but it also saw, here & there, the sober and bitterly earnest business of the convention. An American party convention (as James Bryce knew even in 1893) is a highly intricate and sensitive political assembly in which the pressures, deals and loyalties of months and years burst to light. It has always been far more serious than the paper hats and the noisemakers suggest, and, despite the most brazen political backroom coups, eventually subject to the will of the citizen. The presence of TV's eye made it more so. "Jim," the eye seemed to be saying...
...additions. Toshio G. Tsukahira, research fellow in the Russian Research Center, will describe the history of Japan's civilization since 1800 (185, Group XIII), "History of Russia Since 1917" (156, Group XIV), and "The Republics of the Carribean" (177, Group XII) are also offered. A newcomer to the department, Bryce D. Lyon, will lecture on "Social and Economic Problems of the Middle Ages" (123, Group...
Self-discipline in the exercise of political liberties is also needed to keep democracy stable. Latinos are individualists, insistent upon personal as distinct from political liberty. They are men of passion, men of honor. Lord Bryce, writing in 1912, noted in them "a temper which holds every question to be one of honor." Sometimes, in the flurry of upholding honor and individual rights, some of the quieter ground rules of social conduct have a tendency to get lost in the shuffle. A Cuban joke defines democracy as "having a good job and the right to drive on the wrong side...
Some of his entries are almost hiccuping with raw poetry. In Bryce Canyon he saw: "A million wind-blown pinnacles of salmon pink and fiery white all fused together like stick candy-all suggestive of a child's fantasy of heaven . . ." In Salt Lake City he let loose a hot blast at Mormonism: "The harsh ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside...