10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUGWUMPERY»
Discover the use of
mugwumpery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mugwumpery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Developing Attitudes to Recognition: Substantial Differences ...
This is not an academic institution, but rather a professional society recognised in
country Y as providing training and examinations that fulfil the requirements to
practice mugwumpery. NTRSM qualifications are regarded as equivalent to a ...
Sjur Bergan, E. Stephen Hunt, 2009
2
Mugwumps, Morals, & Politics, 1884-1920
Any discussion of mugwumpery's relation to progressivism must take into
consideration the limitations inherent in the traditional label for the twentieth
century's first decades. A "progressive era" it may have been for some, but not for
all. Blacks ...
Gerald W. McFarland, 1975
3
Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches
muGWumPery'. 22. February. 1933. House of Commons Here Churchill seeks to
debunk the claim of the British Broadcasting Corporation to speak for Britain.
Throughout the greater part of the 1930s the BBC unashamedly supported the ...
Sir Winston S. Churchill, 2013
4
Civic Myths: A Law-and-literature Approach to Citizenship
The tension between Huckleberry Finn's mugwumpery and its populism is
primarily a conflict ofideas, but Twain's attraction to mugwumpery as a cast of
mind complicates another factor that made Trilling's reading so popular. Trilling's
praise of ...
5
Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority
fervently urging Americans to free themselves from their slavish obedience to the
dictates of political machines. Though he resided abroad during most of the
political struggles of the 1 8gos, he reconfirmed his mugwumpery upon returning
to ...
6
William James's Hidden Religious Imagination: A Universe of ...
In this letter of 5 June 1897, James writes: “I brought in some mugwumpery at the
end, but it was very difficult to manage it” (Letters 2: 61). This mugwumpery
appears when James makes appeal to public morality above partisan politics, but
the ...
7
William James: Politics in the Pluriverse
James's arguments stood in clear contrast to the Mugwumpery of the era's other
prominent anti-imperialists. Even beyond the actual Mugwumps, who regarded
the end of American isolationism as imperialism's worst effect, other predominant
...
8
The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, ...
By implementing the English system of a permanent college- educated staff of
gentlemanly civil servants, the Bostonians sought to accomplish the same ends
through similar means. Mugwumpery also functioned to defend Brahmin primacy.
Frederic Cople Jaher, 1982
9
Eugene Field: A Study in Heredity and Contradictions (Complete)
He preferred to go into voluntary exile at DesMoines, Iowa; and in that glorious
Republican harvestfield he accomplished agreat and good work, whichbeing
done,symmetrized and concinnated, he returned tothis Gomorrah of
Mugwumpery ...
10
White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in ...
Taking shape in the formation of the Massachusetts Reform Club in 1882, the
young man's radical wing of Mugwumpery was made up overwhelmingly of
Harvard graduates, often lawyers who combined faith in the legalistic,
rationalistic, and ...
Christopher P. Wilson, 2010
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUGWUMPERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mugwumpery is used in the context of the following news items.
'Vellichor' and other wonderful English words
Mugwumpery: a total disinterest in politics. umbilical-cord, Nawlstring: a baby's umbilical cord. Petrichor: the smell of earth after rain. «The New Daily, May 15»
Young, rich and politically ignorant: Sean Parker and the next …
Take, for instance, what Thomas Frank in this piece astutely described as liberal Mugwumpery, the “reformist” strain among aristocrats in which ... «Salon, Apr 14»
Does the Gettysburg Address Distract Us from the Real Lincoln?
But the recent contempt for conventional party politicians shows that Mugwumpery has evolved, paradoxically, into a set of propositions and ... «The New Republic, Nov 13»
Pedigree Profile: Groupie Doll
Floral Park also foaled stakes producers Mother Nature, Patriotic Petunia and Mugwumpery, dam of Grade II winner Muckraker and two other ... «And Down The Stretch They Come, Nov 13»
How the 1 percent always wins: Liberal washing is the right's new …
We might, at the very least, get something more than than the economically stagnant, politically oppressive Mugwumpery of the Democratic ... «Salon, Nov 13»
Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina
the word “mugwumpery” during 'Hammer And Spade'. Likewise, Brokaw's most recent guitar works have been gnarly and experimental: his ... «The Quietus, Dec 10»
