Word: jingoism
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...reasonable equipoise, a relaxed uprightness of cultural carriage, is with us only some of the time. Jingoism still disfigures the lowbrow end of our journalism. "One of the ways in which we have matured is that we don't give a stuff about what other people think," blustered one such "cultural" columnist, Susan Mitchell, in the Australian, a national daily, last month. "We no longer feel we have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves...
When Nathan M. Pusey ’28 ascended to the Harvard presidency in 1953, Joseph McCarthy was beginning his second term as the junior senator from Wisconsin. Pusey was a respected academic from Lawrence College; McCarthy, an opportunistic demagogue spreading jingoism across postwar America. The two men had little to do with each other, and had Pusey been elected the head of a less influential institution, McCarthy may never have heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism...
House living breeds a certain kind of pride that all too often morphs into House jingoism and mudslinging. One of the longer conversations on my House’s open e-mail list was a 51-post thread that started with ideas for getting new residents excited about Leverett, and ended with an abortive (though semi-serious) declaration of war on Dunster...
...certainly helped President Vladimir Putin rally the Russian public behind a nationalist cause. A poll taken by the Moscow-based Echo Moskvy radio station late last month found that 40% of its typically liberal audience believe that Russia's national interests justify any hard line on Georgia. Such jingoism could work as smartly for Putin's as yet unnamed heir-designate as the Chechen war worked for Putin back in 1999 - that's if Putin feels sufficiently emboldened to risk reiterating Moscow's neighborhood supremacy by challenging what he sees as a U.S. proxy on his own turf...
...arena in the southern U.S., just before a rodeo is to begin, a genial foreigner strides into the ring to whip up the crowd with stalwart jingoism. May America win the war on terror, he proclaims in his thick Eastern European accent, and hurrahs fill the hall. May your soldiers come home victorious, he adds, to more applause. With an even greater burst of exhilaration, Borat Sagdiyev shouts, "May George Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!" The audience cheers again...