Word: jeeringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-time show was under way at the Super Bowl, and the high-stepping Southern University band was presenting a thunderous reprise of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Then, as the announcer intoned "1,300 Englishmen died here," an irate football fan was heard to jeer, "Yeah, and one Greek...
...Left is one part idealism, two parts the posture of idealism. Pretensions exceed performance, and New Leftese is one measure of the distance between the two. The New Left justifiably aspires to regenerate the body politic. But all too often New Leftese turns out to be a jeer trying to do the work of a jeremiad. The New Left prides itself on having, in Oglesby's words, "restored the possibility of ideological thought." But New Leftese mostly favors ideas that can be daubed on a placard. American radicalism is in danger of making itself voluble without making itself articulate...