Word: jacobinism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent advice that "you cawn't cawn't cawn't get a good cup of tea so you have to have champagne" or the poignant historical observation that "there are absolutely no kings in France." accompanied by a shattering picture of this child Jacobin dancing her version of the carmagnole in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. With near-genius she manages to use Paris for the special and highly logical purposes that will occur to a little girl's mind. There is the chance to go swimming in the fountain of the Place de la Concorde...
...rally around. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr condemned the liberal reformers for having ignored the fact of original sin, and declared that man's destiny is to "seek after an impossible victory and to adjust himself to an inevitable defeat." In his The Public Philosophy, Journalist Walter Lippmann denounced the "Jacobin heresy" of the modern democracies, which insists that the New Man will be born out of his emancipation from authority. What is needed, said Lippmann, is a return to the idea of natural law, for with the disappearance of this public philosophy-"and of a consensus on the first...
...Responsibility. Neutrality, said Oldenburg's Evangelical Bishop D. Gerhard Jacobin, "has become absolutely impossible because wars have become total wars. In the age of democracy the individual cannot push the responsibility for war to the state. The individual is co-responsible, and the Christian must oppose wars waged for the enrichment of the state or for power . . . but in a state of emergency in which moral values are endangered, the defense of these values can be more important than life itself...
...major allies assured, Mendes tried hard to complete the dominance of his own Radical Socialists. He plans wherever possible to run youthful "Jacobin" candidates against supporters of his longtime friend, Edgar Faure, who is now his dearest enemy. In the interest of "clarity," he expelled seven top opponents, chief among them ex-Premier Rene Mayer, whose scathing attack on Mendes over North Africa brought Mendes' downfall. In L'Express, Mendes laid down the lines of his campaign. The real choice, he proclaimed, "is between action and immobility, between the promoters of action and those guilty of 'immobilism...
...McCarthy basically is not the fascist type but the type of the left-wing Populist or Jacobin agitator, the barn burner, the Wild Man, by an infallible instinct and not 'by accident' subverting precisely those institutions that are the most conservative, venerable and patrician-from the Constitution, the most decorated or paternal generals (Marshall, Eisenhower, Taylor, Zwicker) to the leaders of our most deeply established religions and precisely the most ancient of our universities...