Word: thermidorian
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Part of McCain's appeal to college students, then, has to do with his gentle contempt for their parents: his rhetoric is, in part, meant to cause something of a Thermidorian Reaction against the ever-indulgent boomers. Rebelling against rebellion is a difficult trick, but with a clever slight of hand a skilled leader can rouse the rabble under the flag of prudence...
...France, the Thermidorian period ended with the establishment of the five-man Directory late in 1795, after the suppression of a public revolt by a young Corsican officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon himself seized power in a 1799 coup d'etat...
Cardullo's, at 6 Brattle Street in the heart of the Square, is the Thermidorian reaction to Central Kitchen's republic of virtue. It is a year-round gastronomical world's fair...
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