Word: serbonian
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...TIME reported the title of my address at the American Bar Association Convention in New York as "Sex and the Single Premium" and characterized it as a "get-'em-in-the-tent" title [Aug. 21]. Actually, the full title of my scholarly lecture was "Up from the Serbonian Bog, or Sex and the Single Premium," appealing only to those interested in the intricacies of Insurance...
...reverted to that characteristic of Republicans of the late nineteenth century. Not the eighteenth century, as the ignorant said: that was the age of the Adamses, of Jefferson and Madison, of Franklin and Hamilton. No, the late nineteenth century: the era when political thought was mired in the Serbonian bog of manifest destiny, untrammelled acquisitiveness and the bloody shirt...
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