Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...weight of the anti-nuclear weapons movement in the United States (and also in the United Kingdom and elsewhere). The majority of people who came of political age since that time, including the current editors of the Crimson and those to whom they speak among their fellow undergraduates, have not had nightmares about nuclear destruction--nightmares common among standard, in the early 1960s. Since nuclear catastrophe has not occurred, it is not a salient issue for most younger politically concerned individuals...
...insecurity, the felling of not knowing whether he was north or south or blue or gray, and became a captain in a raiding fore that was a adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson's death, he killed a fellow officer in a quarrel; William Bell was ordered to be shot by his commander-in-chief, in a letter in Lee's own hand, January 1, 1864, in a camp outside Lexington. Instead, he escaped by knifing his guard and lived to greatly approve of the Radical Republicans and American expansion...
...appeal of Khomeini's Islamic fundamentalism to non-Muslim nations in the Third World is limited. Not so the wave of nationalism he unleashed in Iran. Warns William Quandt, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "People in the Third World were promised great gains upon independence [from colonialism], and yet they still find their lives and societies in a_ mess." Historically, such unfulfilled expectations prepare the ground for revolution, and the outbreak in Iran offers an example of an uprising that embodies a kind of nose-thumbing national pride...
...read deeply in early Greek philosophy and can discuss Aristotle with animated admiration; Iran's new constitution is an Islamic version of Plato's Republic, with Khomeini as philosopher-king. His peers, however, generally believe that on matters of Islamic scholarship he is less profound than some of his fellow ayatullahs?notably Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Numerous Western scholars who have spoken to him have been shocked by his ignorance of modern life. He knows little of the non-Muslim world, and regards it with morbid suspicion...
Phillips: No, I was never a member of the Party as such, but was a "fellow-traveller." Since I was only affiliated with the Party for a short time, I never felt that I was their stooge. I played a relatively independent role. [He thinks about it for a minute]. Well, maybe I was a stooge a few minutes before I woke...