Word: civic
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...peace and wealthy Europeans started to travel in search of different art, culture - and weather. The following century saw Nice inundated with French, English and Russian aristocrats. In La Belle Epoque Nice was such a popular destination for its mild winter, Kanigel says, that it "luxuriated in civic self-confidence [and] flaunted its excesses." England's Queen Victoria visited five years in a row for a couple of months each winter, along with 60 staff. After World War I a series of setbacks - the Great Depression, German occupation, local corruption scandals - took their toll, even as sunbathing became fashionable...
Jackson will become the first president of the Arthur M. Blank Foundation, founded in 1995 by the co-founder and CEO of Home Depot. The foundation serves young people and various civic and community causes, giving out about $37 million in grants in 2002 alone...
...sounded somehow tampered with and wrong. The original version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds. The new phrase, set off by tendentious commas, was a hiccup in the flow of the drone, the mumbled civic music, the school kids' om. Even as a callow youth, I sensed that someone had intruded an alien and politicized bromide into the pledge. Again, the adjacent word indivisible banged up against a new divisive irrelevance, a phrase that seemed to demand, somewhere below the surface, "What...
...rainbow-colored gay pride banners. In Washington, God and country have seldom been so part of the national discourse, as seemingly every member of Congress wants to go on record as supporting God, country, motherhood, puppies and all other American icons. And Fourth of July barbecues suddenly seem like civic duty; a majority of Americans polled say they will continue to celebrate, undeterred by any terror threat...
...sounded somehow tampered with and wrong. The original version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds. The new phrase, set off by tendentious commas, was a hiccup in the flow of the drone, the mumbled civic music, the school kids' om. Even as a callow youth, I sensed that someone had intruded an alien and politicized bromide into the pledge. Again, the adjacent word indivisible banged up against a new divisive irrelevance, a phrase that seemed to demand, somewhere below the surface, "What...