Word: refering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where political philosophies tended to turn inward, most political movements of the past 150 years have been highly exogamous, often finding in partibus infidelium new ideas with which to mate. For many years, liberals have been in favor of expanding and improving social security; would it make sense to refer to them as "Junker liberals" merely because the first social security system was instituted in the regime of Otto von Bismarck...
...keeping our political lexicon up to date. Not merely the hybrids, but elemental political terms such as conservative, liberal, radical, progressive, are wildly misleading as descriptions of the actual positions, motivations and attitudes of most of the people to whom they refer...
...book is De Gaulle at his infuriating best. It overflows with the lofty certitude and self-confidence of a man who, without embarrassment, can refer to himself repeatedly in the third person. Of the 1958 Algiers uprising that brought him to power, he writes: "No one really doubted that the situation could have any other conclusion than De Gaulle." Describing the assassination attempt on him in August 1962, he notes: "Of the 150-odd bullets aimed at us, 14 strike our vehicle. Yet-none of us is hit. May De Gaulle therefore go on pursuing his road and his vocation...
Five million motorcycles, Nicholi said, will be in use this year, as compared with fewer than half a million in 1956. "Injuries and fatalities have escalated to what physicians now refer to as 'an epidemic of trauma'-this year 5000 people will be killed and close to a million injured in such accidents...
...first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, earned for him a niche on the literary landscape. Though each of his five succeeding novels has received fine notices, Moore's highest praises have still been sung subterraneously by a few fond readers and fellow writers who refer his work to each other. For Moore is one of the last of a vanishing breed: the serious seeker who is also a consummate professional...