Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being an Uncle Tom. To millions of other Negroes, his image is blurred at best. Because of his pale skin, his Episcopalian faith, his reserved New England manner, he is looked upon as what might be described as a "NASP"?the Negro equivalent of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Only two of his 19 Senate staffers are Negroes, because Brooke refuses to hire people on the basis of race; to many Negroes that in itself is grounds for suspicion. Brooke's wife is white, and many Negroes also consider that an affront. As Massachusetts attorney general, Brooke shied away...
...intriguing though far from convincing reply to that question comes from Dr. H.B.M. Murphy in a 1963 article in the United Nations' "Bulletin on Narcotics." What puts people off, says Murphy thoughtfully, is that pot users become passivists in a world that values activity. "In Anglo-Saxon cultures," he writes, "inaction is looked down on and often feared, whereas overactivity, aided by alcohol or independent of alcohol, is considerably tolerated despite the social disturbance produced...
...with them. The U.S. is represented not by Virgilian celebrators of the Great Society but by outsiders dog-paddling against the mainstream of American life. If American society is a success, no one would know it from this anthology. Unless it is Louis Auchincloss (unrepresented here), the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant has no laureate and, unless it is John O'Hara (also unrepresented), no candid friend. The voice of America...
...eyes of many a modern university protester, this was the golden age of education. The essential debate between Lernfreiheit, student freedom, and the Anglo-Saxon tradition that the college stood in loco parentis, was first articulated in Germany in the late 18th century, and later drew some 9,000 American students eager to endorse the new freedom. The issue is still being fought on American campuses...
...minimum, the decision will have a significant effect on a dozen pending lawsuits over branching, notably in Michigan; yet the comptroller's office professed at week's end to have no notion how many more of Saxon's controversial branch approvals might now be subject to attack. Many bankers seemed to agree with President Jack T. Conn of the American Bankers Association, who called the ruling "wonderful." But not Saxon, who became co-chairman of the American Fletcher Na tional Bank & Trust Co. of Indianapolis after his term as comptroller expired last month. Saxon scoffed at Clark...