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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...
...most Americans called progressive have been distinguished by their opposition to the business system, which has introduced 90% of the enormous progress (or at least change) that has appeared in 20th century America. Obversely, a number of businessmen, while transforming the society by automobiles, advertising, computers and urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing for a future society conceived as a static Elysium...
...begun direct service linking a dozen colleges with major cities and has hired student representatives on campus to promote Greyhound. Kerrigan claims that many students see the bus as a sort of folk symbol-a metaphor for reality, a part of the new open-road mystique-and that they refer to travelers who take planes as "plastic people." In the last year, references to Greyhound or bus have bounced up in several popular songs, notably the country music hit Thank God and Greyhound. Sample lyric...
...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...