Word: spenglers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christmas day in the year 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne a Roman Emperor. Philosopher Oswald Spengler dismissed Charlemagne's rule as "a surface episode without issue." H. G. Wells labeled it a poor copy of the Caesars. Although Charlemagne did not impress some modern historians, he did inspire the craftsmen and artists of his own era. This summer a mammoth exhibition of 700 Carolingian art works is on view in Aachen, Germany, the Emperor's historic seat of power...
...West is declining because it does not have enough servants. "Destroy the leisure class, and you destroy civilization," said J. P. Morgan, who defined the leisure class as those families who kept at least one "in help." J.P. will hardly be remembered as a dazzling social philosopher, a Spengler of Wall Street, but the question of leisure-what it is, who has it, and how to use it-haunts anyone who thinks about the nature of American life. The U.S. has created the world's first middle-class society, which enjoys (so it is widely held) not only spectacular...
...cavortings, whoopings and gurglings of dim-witted adolescents more akin to 17th century Algonquin Indians than to the founders of this great Republic, devotees of rock 'n' roll music prove conclusively that Homo neanderthalensis is still with us. If politicians in Washington go for it, then assuredly Spengler was right...
...decisions, students study techniques from linear algebra to clinical psychology to computer programming. Along with other required courses, for example, they study "Ideas in the Changing Environment"-how society and business have interacted in important historical periods. First-semester required reading spans 17 books, from Darwin to Freud to Spengler...
...which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development of the earth's crust; Olaus Roemer was determining the velocity of light. And John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, was proposing a theory of representative government with such eloquence that Oswald Spengler was later to conclude that Locke was the architect of the Western Enlightenment...