Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identifies the current political threat as the "tyranny of the majority." He draws a distinction between public opinion and popular opinion, praising the former as something more than the mere "whole of a majority of actual, living voters." Valid democracy is "historic, tradition-anchored and 'corporate'." Sounding like a Prussian Junker, Nisbet, a genteel tenured member of the Columbia faculty, identifies perhaps his greatest fear for the future of his nation: ". . . the aggregate we call the mass or crowd, always oscillating between anarchic and military forms of despotism...
Radical Chic. While Schmidt has restored a bit of Prussian efficiency to German politics, Giscard, 48, has brought radical chic to France's government. The transformation is all the more surprising because as Pompidou...
...Cymbeline, Othello, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest among others) are universal, and Kahn's choice is perfectly defensible. Shakespeare specified a Verona summer. In 1866, Verona, the episcopal see of the Venetia region abutting Austria, was a hotbed of turmoil, a pawn in the seven-week Austro-Prussian War, during which it was finally ceded by Austria to Italy...
...Gulag, Solzhenitsyn describes his arrest for the first time. In February 1945, as the Red Army rumbled inexorably through Germany to Berlin, the battle-worn captain was suddenly seized near Konigsberg, on the East Prussian front. He was stripped of his rank, his medals and his gun, and escorted by armed guards back to Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. It was then that the writer was born. Passing through a Moscow subway station en route to Lubyanka on that bitter winter day, Solzhenitsyn paused and surveyed the scene...
Chileans frequently observe that they have a Prussian army, a British navy and an American air force−and indeed, foreign influences like goose-stepping are visible in each. Until World War I, when the army was strongly influenced by its German tutors, most of the officers came from the aristocratic landowning class. Today the vast majority of both officers and recruits come from the middle and lower classes...