Word: whig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perry G. E. Miller and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professors of American Literature and History, respectively, both conceded that Davy was a brave "Injun fighter" and "b'ar hunter," as the popular song claims. But as a Congressman, they said, Crockett was a willing stooge used by the Whig Party to counter the popular appeal of the Democrats' Andrew Jackson...
Other universities have prevented this stagnation by forming political discussion groups to enable students to break away from their lecture environment and speak out for themselves. Time-honored organizations like Yale's Political Union, Oxford's Union, and Princeton's Whig-Cliosophic Society--all numbering over 300 in membership--are reminders of potential student interest in expressing as well as absorbing ideas...
MELBOURNE, by Lord David Cecil, the second and final volume of one of the finest biographies in many years, described the life and times of England's last big Whig, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister...
Melbourne, by Lord David Cecil. A first-rate account of Britain's last big Whig, who said: "This damned morality will ruin everything'' (TIME...
...brief years, the last of the Regency Whigs held the hand of the first of the Victorian moralists. But the heyday of the Whig aristocracy was over. When the young Queen married her stern, respectable Prince Consort, Melbourne found himself in the doghouse. For a while Lord M fought the changing order, and his aged voice could be heard crying: "This damned morality will ruin everything!" But at last he retired to the country. "The fire is out," he told his friends bluntly. "The fire...