Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential Palestine. One hopes that those who would like to see a Palestinian state would take a more positive view toward the most basic elements of statehood. The running of day-to-day affairs and the regulation of citizens' activities ought to stand at the heart of any nationalist aspirations, and not be viewed as "dirty work...
...furiously to head off a stampeding mob of sheep, remains a national icon a century later. Streeton painted not wilderness but settled pastoral land, framed by vast space. In The Purple Noon's Transparent Might, 1896 (the title is from Shelley: culturally, England still bore strongly on these highly nationalist artists), the high-keyed light and crisp, decisive brushwork create a broad, deep and coherent space brimming with heat...
...would naturally include some discussion of place-based or regional challenges, but this is clearly not what brings most students to the course. Racial and ethnic strains on nationhood are well understood, but the idea that a region like the Rocky Mountain West might begin to question the prevailing nationalist assumptions seems outlandish--or, in another word, provincial. But such an attitude no longer becomes a world-class center of learning...
...Croly argued that democratic citizenship was fundamental to American identity. Recognizing that the people are sovereign, but "only insofar as they succeed in reaching and expressing a collective purpose," Croly concluded that by the 20th century, we could only fulfill our democratic potential by becoming "frankly, unscrupulously, and loyally nationalist." Josiah Royce, one of Croly's contemporaries, suggested a human-scale approach to nationalism. Specifically, he argued that we should seek "to train national loyalty through provincial loyalty...
...unfortunately for me, I actually can relate to the pompous professor. My senior year in high school, I wrote an essay on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in which I boldly asserted that one of the novel's characters, Ras the Exhorter, was based on the real-life black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. I remember feeling the smug self-satisfaction that comes with crafting (what I thought was) an original academic argument. I excerpted the essay on my Harvard application. I wondered--only half in jest--whether it was publishable...