Word: frazer
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...which it is true. Viet Nam may have been a hallucination. It was surely a warning, though one not always easy to read. It was also a kind of national rite of passage, a great power learning Kipling's lesson the hard way. In The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer describes how a tribesman chosen to be king must be enchained and thrashed before his coronation. The moral may be that a nation, like a king, needs a little chastening perspective...
...Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and Frazer's Golden Bough. And George Meredith's works, especially his Essay on Comedy. And H.G. Wells' Time Machine and The Outline of History and any good history of the U.S. And Cardinal
...James George Frazer, The Golden Bough...
Since the Reagan administration's takeover in January, Eizenstat has opened a Washington office of the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy--the partnership he worked for in Atlanta before joining the Carter staff...