Word: saxonism
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...entrenched oligarchs like the Brazilian industrialist who told a U.S. visitor: "You know, Brazil's growth is based in part on not paying taxes. If we paid, the government would spend it on foolishness like the army. Why do you keep talking about taxes? Taxation is an Anglo-Saxon fetish." Most important of all, it means listening to-and heeding -complaints like this from an Argentinean lawyer: "The U.S. projects one specific policy for the whole of Latin America. What works well in Mexico cannot possibly work effectively in Bolivia. Conditions are basically different. All this...
...assuage the Gallic gland, French men gulp some 7,000 varieties of patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French...
Crises for Cats. In most other civilized countries, the liver is rated one of the body's most rugged and efficient organs; the original protein factory, it can actually repair its own damaged cells and lost tissue. The Anglo-Saxon often attributes liver ailments to malnutrition, a fate to which the liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream...
...transpire means "to come to light," he cried, not "to happen."* In hope of, he insisted, not in hopes of. Owing to means "because of," he warned; due to means "the result of." In hope of making the difference between will and shall transpire, Lambuth brandished the Anglo-Saxon words, willan (to wish, to be about to) and sculan (to be obliged). If an act is owing to free will, he ordered, use "I will." If it is due to an outside force, use "I shall." I will be married, but I shall be drafted...
...color on a vast canvas stretching from New England to Rome and Vienna. Tom Tryon, lithe and beatific as Father Stephen Fermoyle, plays the prospective prince. At first he falters. His sister Mona (Carol Lynley) tells him in the confessional that she has "slept with" a boy (John Saxon) whom she cannot marry because he is a Jew. Fermoyle never gives absolution, for he has long since despaired of converting the boy, who utters wisecracks like: "Hasn't Darwin kind of put the skids to GenesisT...