Word: spenglerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scholar can do now is assert that tomorrow's weather will be much the same as today's, then the intellectual in such a setting is dead and in his place civilized mysticism and astrological superstition will flourish most luxuriantly. Here one is not being merely speculative. Oswald Spengler-another famous twentieth-century cynical historian-veers dangerously close to this position. In the second volume of The Decline of the West he wrote that "The regular periodicity of certain events is yet another indication that the cosmic surgings in the form of human life on a small planet...
Finally, Professor Lipset's view of historical cycles is, of course, none too eccentric a view of history: Plato, Polybius, Machiavelli, Vico, Spengler form an impressive pedigree. He need not even be too cautious in predicting when the next conservative cycle will dawn. After all, Plato-boldly and rather sensibly, as it would be well-nigh difficult and unnecessary to prove him wrong-calculated that history returned upon itself in 72,000 years! From internal evidence there is no doubt that for Lipset the periodicity of this circular movement by which the history of the states returned, over and over...
...long season." Spengler sighed last night. "I just couldn't push myself that hard today...
This marks the second straight year in which a hopeful Harvard team has ended up 29th. "It's a lot different race than any other, even the IC4A's," Spengler asserted. There were about 350 entrants, and naturally the quality of the runners was exceptional...
...Spengler agreed. "It's easy to say you'd like to do well, but to actually get the adrenaline rolling is a different thing," he explained...