Word: saxonism
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...French government, which until recently took an active role in overseeing takeover deals in the financial sector, has remained silent at the outburst of cannibalism. "France is eager to remain in the race, and there's an overall feeling that [its institutions] have to be a bit more Anglo-Saxon, more market oriented," De Lamaze says...
...Church, Calvinistic Protestantism, commercially adept, militantly expansionist, and highly convinced, in Old World, New World, or both, that it represented a chosen people and a manifest destiny. In the full, three-century context, Cavaliers, aristocrats, and bishops pretty much lost and Puritans, Yankees, self-made entrepreneurs, Anglo-Saxon nationalists, and expansionists had the edge, especially in America...
Following a discussion of everything from St.Augustine to Magna Carta to Chaucer, Brown saidhis interviewer "put two photocopies ofmanuscripts--one Latin, another Anglo-Saxon--infront of me and said, 'Now read and translate...
...seconds or more while formulating some answers. When the going got tough, he rocked back and forth in his chair like a toy dog in a car window. He testily parsed fine distinctions (Microsoft's "deal" with Apple vs. their "relationship") and professed to be nonplussed by common Anglo-Saxon words ("I have no idea what you're talking about when you say 'ask.'"). At times the wiry, high-pitched, tousled-haired billionaire morphed into Woody Allen riffing on Bill Clinton's deposition in the Ken Starr inquiry...
...Irish poet's project to revive Anglo-Saxon for today's audiences, however, is not just another indulgence of "ethnic swank," he says. Because, 0 as he argued in one of the Wednesday "Talking Shop" discussions, "The English tongue is something that's grown beyond the nation." English speakers who are not English nationals can claim the poem as part of their linguistic genealogy as legitimately as those who carry English passports, he argued...