Word: cromwellian
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...compared to such immense Shakespearean stupidities as, say, the Watergate capers - the imbecile break-ins, the moronic dirty tricks, and, above all, wily Richard Nixon's weird refusal to destroy the tapes? Can W. measure up to the standard of the Gingrich Republicans, who seized the government with a Cromwellian vengeance in 1994 and then so idiotically overplayed their hand that Bill Clinton deftly recovered and sailed on through a second term? No. The Republicans since Ronald Reagan's departure achieved a professionalism of buffoonery of which W. can only dream. Their conduct of the Clinton impeachment was a Three...
...class: a brilliant medical researcher, not surprisingly several professors of English--and as for the most creative and irreverent participant, he has served with great distinction on the Harvard faculty. I shall refrain from according this college roommate direct and deserving recognition, lest his tenure be in jeopardy by Cromwellian forces in University...
...questioned about it." It is that candor, conveying irresistibly the sense of life as it was, that finally begins to make Pepys rather likable after all. And so history has come to rely on his vivid descriptions of all he saw: the Restoration of the Crown after the Cromwellian revolution, the Great Fire of London, the return of the Black Death, even the petty details of King Charles II in conference. "All I observed there is the silliness of the King," Pepys wrote, "playing with his dog all the while, or his codpiece, and not minding the business...
...with a grim conscience over American intellectual life and willingly intervened in politics, appearing in demonstrations against the Viet Nam War and campaigning for Eugene McCarthy. Norman Mailer, in The Armies of the Night, recalled him during the march on the Pentagon in 1967, "virile and patrician," with "a Cromwellian light...
...History I said that there would likely be an invisible college surfacing in the '70s or '80s after the exhaustion of the protest movement, and I was surprised to see it come up faster than I expected. I was, however, thinking more in terms of a Cromwellian protectorate than a bunch of behavioral engineers round the world who would be trying to consolidate their power. The intriguing idea about the Club of Rome is its incredible sophistication as a prestige structure. They finesse the whole power situation by not even trying to go for power, but they...