Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name was Anthony Blake, good AngloSaxon name from a good Anglo-Saxon background in the heart of suburban America. He enlisted out of high school, because he had never been a bright boy and his high school counselor thought it best that he get his military service out of the way. No one knows whether the counselor will attend the funeral. They do know Anthony was a good boy, if a little careless behind the wheel of a car, and so the lamentations have begun in the homes of Anthony's friends and family...
...Catholic marriage partners end up in an ecclesiastical court, they come face to face with the ancient Roman concept of jurisprudence-guilty until proven innocent-instead of the Anglo-Saxon juridical concept, which embodies the opposite assumption. However much a petitioner may be convinced that his marriage exists in name only, the marriage bond is presumed to exist unless proved otherwise. The 639-year-old Sacred Roman Rota, the ultimate court of appeals in marriage cases (it annulled only 182 marriages worldwide in 1969), sets the pattern that diocesan and regional tribunals are expected to follow. When in doubt, judges...
...mean we're supposed to applaud?" asks the lady from Wichita, Kans. "Why, I never heard of such a thing." The general audience is indeed something to stretch Anglo-Saxon and North European credulity. It is a religious occasion presided over by the spiritual leader of 600 million Catholics; yet at times it resembles nothing so much as Shea Stadium on banner night, with overtones of the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, the National Spelling Bee and the state fair...
...Afro-Saxon Leaders. After three days of negotiations, the government agreed to sack an unpopular army commander, and the mutiny flickered out. Four persons were killed during the week; of the army's seven reported casualties, one had received a shot in the hand, another had sprained an ankle, and a third had suffered a case of "exhaustion and constipation...
...note about the U.S. Air Force discontinuing its bagpipe band [March 16]: America is supposedly the "melting pot" of nations; so it hardly seems fair to rule out the regalia of one of the most colorful countries of the world. After all, aren't most Americans of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic descent? Is Mrs. Ryan such a thoroughbred American that she can deny this...