Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marxism and their later repudiation of it in favor of conservatism. "Open a copy of National Review," he says, "and we find the renegades from radicalism as cold war avengers. Positions have changed, but the passions remain." The ex-communist becomes an "inverted Stalinist", in Isaac Deutscher's phrase. Diggins defers to Deutscher's descriptions of such...
...Buffett may just be standing right in front of you, along with the pedal steel you've been looking for. Jimmy Buffett is a semi-permanent escapee, you see, whose major claim to fame as far as the Southern vocabulary goes is his invention and frequent usage of the phrase "commode-hugging drunk," which comes in real handy on recriminating mornings replete with description and Darvons...
...soldier in an 'army of generals?' " asked Browning, echoing a phrase used by a defense witness...
...that North House is fourth in popularity among the University's Houses--and that all three of the Radcliffe Houses are in the top eight--should contain at least one paragraph discussing possible errors and correct procedures for interpretation. The Crimson's only admission to possible error--the cursory phrase "a statistical significance of five per cent--means nothing to your average Humanities major who has not taken Stat...
...issues, Jackson has shrewdly and forcefully blended a conservatism on foreign affairs and many social questions with a traditional liberalism on economics and civil rights. The issue of detente is almost his own. He started complaining about a one-way street long before the phrase was picked up by his Democratic rivals. He combines a skepticism about the Soviet Union with pleas for an old-fashioned patriotism and an end to national self-deprecation. He declares: "We have got to put a stop to constantly turning the other cheek and letting the other side kick us all over...