Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the climactic moment, U.S. friendship for this Persian Ozymandias and this quintessential banana-republic strongman did not seem to count for much. His Imperial Majesty the King of Kings became overnight an international outcast with a price on his head, wandering from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas to...
Carter Administration officials vehemently reject Kissinger's complaint that they overthrew Somoza. The Sandinistas did that themselves. All the U.S. did was to administer a diplomatic coup de grâce in order to end the civil war. To preserve the status quo in Iran or Nicaragua-i.e...
In the morality campaign of 1976, a Connally candidacy would have been almost unthinkable. But the pendulum of American political preferences seems always swinging, moving from a fear of an imperial leader to a fear of a weak one, from a desire for a moral President to a desire for...
But Diaghilev had already begun to make enemies. Even as a schoolboy, notes Buckle, Sergei had offended his friends by his "society manners" and a desire to "make calls, leave cards and write his name in the books of distinguished people." Foes pressed for his dismissal from the staff of...
One of the problems with the concept of decadence is that it has such a long moral shoreline, stretching from bleak and mountainously serious considerations of history to the shallow places where ideas evaporate 30 seconds after they splash. For all the range of its uses, decadence is a crude...