Word: chauvinistic
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Viet Nam is not the only situation that calls for national patience. Everywhere, from Charles de Gaulle's chauvinist challenge to the latest mob pulling down an American flag, the world relentlessly tests American forbearance. Equally so at home. The urgency of the young, the struggle for Negro rights, the plans for the Great Society, the space race -all raise expectations of quick success to balance against the need for measured progress. The ability to find the right pace and the steady strength for the long pull are more necessary than ever. Yet there is, and always has been...
...that undergraduate writers are either inept thieves or self-conscious bores. Editor Jonathan Culler has attempted to justify each inclusion by fitting it into the Advocate's labored, changing definition of itself or by showing that the piece demonstrates the impact of belles-lettres on Harvard. Only the real chauvinist, the Harvard grad who moved only as far away as Brattle St., could care...
Auspitz: Chauvinist...
...universities--both public and private--for the past decade can deny that federal money will become more and more necessary to their survival. At the same time, no one concerned with academic freedom can fail to see the threat such aid poses. The NDEA disclaimer affidavit constitutes an unhealthy chauvinist precedent for government-university relations in this...
...vaguely worded attempt to assure conformity to an officially "safe" norm of belief; because it singles out the academic community for suspicion of disloyalty and requires that students, unlike any other class of people, must reaffirm in writing that they are loyal; because it constitutes a dangerous Chauvinist precedent for any future federal aid to education acts; because, finally, it alienates the loyal while failing to protect in any effective way against the disloyal...