Word: saxonism
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...Borges, human life is pathetically ephemeral and yet immortal, because each individual bears witness to a precise set of perceptions that cannot be duplicated. When the last unknown Saxon died, writes Borges, there died with him the "face of Woden, the old dread and exultation, the rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments, the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners...
Though the Cambodian government promised to pay for the damages, Sihanouk called the riot "inexcusable but comprehensible," said that the mob was goaded by "the repeated humiliations inflicted on their country by the Anglo-Saxon powers" (total U.S. aid to Cambodia since 1954: $340 million). In a calculated slap at the West, Sihanouk went on to discuss neighboring Laos in a way that all but recognized the Communist Pathet Lao as its real government, also announced that he would soon send a delegation to Hanoi to negotiate a border-demarcation agreement with Communist North Viet Nam. Since South Viet...
Overheated Rhetoric. While the anti-crime bills were being considered by the legislature, they got strong support from law-enforcement agencies, but many lawyers were loud in their disapproval. Said the State Bar Association in denouncing the stop-and-frisk proposal: "Nowhere in the history of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence have we so closely approached a police state." When Rockefeller signed the bills anyway, another organization, made up largely of lawyers and called the Emergency Committee for Public Safety, attacked the new laws as "the worst police state measures ever enacted in the history of our nation-ominously dangerous enactments threatening...
...time is a hundred years after the Norman Conquest, and Anouilh roots his conflict in the blood enmity between Henry, great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and his Saxon subject. Henry sneers at Becket as a "collaborator," but in fact the king is sycophant to the courtier, whose quiet contempt holds his master eternally in thrall...
...been a reasonably successful artists' agent. A typical de Antonio venture was his fictitious corporation, "Conservative Enterprises, Inc.," which he founded one day about five years ago. It was, of course, a satire on business: the company's board of directors was a list of impressive-sounding, Anglo-Saxon, and completely imaginary names. But by selling a Texas oil millionaire a warehouseful of nylon ropes that no one wanted because they had communications wires inside them, de Antonio made enough money out of Conservative Enterprises to take a rather long, rather pleasant vacation...