Word: cromwellian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...left, the Labor opposition led by Harold Wilson dithers irresolutely, divided on economic policy and on Europe. The white-hot Wilson who fronted the technological challenge of his 1964 victory is a gray ash of his former self-and his credibility is as fragile. His is not the Cromwellian voice that might save the workers from the siren calls of industrial and political anarchy. No longer is there that "we are on our way" zest of ten years ago. Barring a hard-to-foresee miracle, there is a long, hot summer ahead for Britain...