Word: yankeeism
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Acknowledging the academic character of his audience, Martin spoke at length on Latin intellectualism. "Philosophical Marxism provides an outlet for the latent anti-Yankeeism of many South American intellectuals. These men act as a respectable background for the extremist who, for his own reasons, hates...
Puritanism degenerated into "Yankeeism because of this corruption, Niebuhr asserted. The Puritans were so extreme that they "regarded every storm as a revelation of God's wrath." If events went well, the Puritans slipped into "the complacent identification of virtue with success...
Latin Americans generally assumed that the U.S. was in Castillo Armas' corner and after he invaded Guatemala, a dank breeze of Communist-abetted anti-Yankeeism swept through some of the hemisphere's countries. Students squawked in demonstrations in Panama, Uruguay, Chile Peru, Cuba, Argentina and Honduras: a U.S. flag was burned in Chile. But there was none of that in Guatemala, where the U.S. role was understood and deeply appreciated. As the overthrown regime's victims were dug out of their graves and the luckier survivors emerged from their cells Guatemalans raised grateful cheers...
...Waterloo 130 years ago (as Victor Hugo tells it), the strange Yankeeism had been brilliantly and broadly translated by General Pierre Jacques Etienne de Cambronne, commanding the last square of Napoleon's Old Guard. To a British demand for surrender the General shouted: "Merde!"-now proudly (but euphemistically) cited by fastidious Frenchmen as le mot de Cambronne-"Cambronne's [four-letter] word...
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