Word: saxonism
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...company of proud men, an I.R.A. volunteer often lives a life not so much of denial as dedication, a laic pilgrim on the road to the Republic, a knight templar justified in the use of his sword. This atmosphere of sanctity and violence is alien to the Saxon world...
...attempting to articulate fatuities, the cast pulls out all the glottal stops. Caine shuttles between Anglo-Saxon, German and Cockney. Oscarsson, a Swede, is absurdly fanatic, with energy and witches to burn. Sharif, the first Near Eastern Westphalian, has, as ever, the wettest eyes in Christendom. Yet it is Clavell who bears prime responsibility for this drive-in Mother Courage. His battle scenes are stagy and confused; even his anachronistic editorials ("War is all I have") ring false. Clavell misunderstands the nature of historic evil, of political hysteria, and of war itself -Thirty Years' or any time, anywhere...
THERE is no clearer manifestation of the white, male, upper-class, Anglo-Saxon prejudice of Harvard's ruling elite than its open and proudly flaunted prejudice against women in admissions policy. And though it would be difficult to argue that a bright woman forced to go to, say, Vassar instead of Radcliffe is as oppressed as a Laotian peasant woman strafed by the U. S. Air Force, or a black woman or man in this country deprived of any sort of decent education at all, it is clear that a 50-50 admissions policy by next year is a cause...
...First mention of the penny, the oldest English coin, occurred in the laws of the West Saxon King Ine, who ruled between 688 and 726. The first pennies were struck in silver about 770, and some time after that it was discovered that 240 coins could be minted from a pound of silver. The shilling came along in 1504, its name a derivation of the Old English word settling, meaning cutting or slicing...
...book Of a Fire on the Moon, ostensibly about the Apollo 11 moon shot, Norman Mailer was really writing about Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). Or so he indicated during an interview with Leticia Kent, published in the current Vogue. Hymenopterist Mailer, who has called Wasps "the most Faustian, barbaric, draconian, progress-oriented and root-destroying people on earth," has moved on to "some mysterious and half-spooky conclusions," notably that "the real mission of the Wasp in history was not, say, to create capitalism, or to disseminate Christianity into backward countries...