Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole, said Eisenstadt, the standard of living of the Israeli Arabs has risen, and "is probably the highest in the Arab world in per capita income." But "it is hard for them to adjust to the egalitarian society--or the approximation to it--in Israel," he said, and he tells a story he heard after the war to illustrate: "Many Arab notables from the occupied territory visited Jerusalem after the war. The Mayor of Jerusalem showed a visiting notable around the city, and when they returned to the car there was a ticket on it. The Arab asked about...
...EGALITARIAN. Today we live in a land of racial tension, bred of 200 years of misunderstanding, fear and injustice-bred of guilt that the American reality often has been so shockingly at odds with the ideal...
...medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms of a dread disease but neglects it until TOO LATE because of the press of work; the rich and prideful patient who is cut down to size by the egalitarian properties of pain; even Kostoglotov's brief, touching hanky-panky in a corridor with a pretty nurse named Zoya...
...often been with America. As the pioneer vanguard of the young Republic swept westward, Americans were gradually confronted by an embarrassing discrepancy between political dreams and everyday realities. There was on the one hand the agrarian, egalitarian Eden of their early (often mythical) memory, and on the other, the violent have-and-have-not realities of an incipient industrial state. At the end of the 19th century, this conflict-exacerbated by a civil war and a massive infusion of immigrants-had dislocated millions of people, to say nothing of their ideals. Where was America going? Had a continent been laid...
...unique, home-grown institution shaped on the American frontier. Free land, Turner argued, made Americans free and generous. Frontier hardship made them self-reliant and individualistic. Frontier challenges made them willing to cooperate democratically with one another. The absence of the trappings of privilege made them egalitarian...