Word: disestablishmentarianism
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Both Eliot and the pragmatists were, broadly, students of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821. What they inherited from him was what Menand terms the “disestablishmentarian impulse”: the distrust of all fixities, the crusade against all institutions and orthodoxies...
...angry, it is to be mistaken for an Angry Young Man through recurrent journalistic confusion with John (Room at the Top) Braine, one of a group of dissidents who are sore at the English Establishment. Yet he is not a Tory or a stuffed shirt, but is an anti-disestablishmentarian...
Born. To Mary lire, 28, actress wife of Britain's splenetic, disEstablishmentarian Playwright John Osborne: her first child, a son; in London, while her husband sojourned at a French villa...
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