Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as in name. And it seems likely that the last two weeks' violence and terror will subside, as the violence and terror that accompanied the integration of Southern schools ten years ago did, to be replaced by at least acquiescence in a society at least a little more egalitarian...
...With more than 12 million members, the Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination, but hardly its most egalitarian...
...Image. Since the disastrous 1972 election, Trudeau has tried to create a more egalitarian and concerned image for himself. In July's election, the Liberals will be counting heavily on Trudeau's still formidable personal appeal, as well as on his argument that the opposition unfairly brought the government down before it had had a real chance to deal with inflation. The Tories and the New Democrats, for their part, will stress that the Liberals had their chance and mismanaged the economy. Most experts feel that the election will produce only another indecisive result, thereby giving Canadians their...
...Degler's study penetrates sections of the South's nineteenth century social fabric. Degler shows that race subordinated class interests even among dissenters, that realism rather than moralism set the cadence of Southern reform rhetoric, that Union sentiment in the South was more often "cautious, conservative and realistic" than egalitarian. And so he concludes logically that Southern dissenters still "wore the stamp of their region. They were Southerners...
...sketching characters and setting scenes. But he also puts a fresh wrinkle in the old tale of a cold sophisticate getting burned by the rube. Yankee versions customarily make the rube goodhearted. But Adams and Giles both represent a failure of what Americans like to think of as an egalitarian society. Adams' understated, institutionalized arrogance and Giles' blustering, rude arrogance are not different in substance. Only in Style. −R.Z. Sheppard