Word: cavalierism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AT FIRST, THE POLICE DIDN'T KNOW quite what to make of Randy Lee Meadows Jr. Responding to reports of a shooting in the predominantly black Campbell Terrace section of Fayetteville, North Carolina, early last Thursday, the officers thought Meadows looked very much out of place. It was past midnight...
He left for Paris the next year. Thus, although he liked to posture as a dashing Tidewater cavalier, Whistler never became an officer, let alone saw action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him and accounts for a curious adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France...
Most law professors give the amendment the same limited reading. But there is a dissenting minority. In a widely noted article in the Yale Law Journal in 1989, Professor Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas, who describes himself as "a card-carrying A.C.L.U. member who doesn't own a...
Cavalier Magic
Given the span of Spero's artistic career, sheis surprisingly cavalier about her work. Spero iscareful to emphasize that she is reconfiguring thepast, "Not in any scholarly or scientific way" butrather using "visual and psychic personalreactions."