Word: paternalisme
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Until the 18th century, says Sennett, such authority was accepted as a natural consequence of an inherent inequality among men. When the American and French revolutions outlawed that inequality, they undermined all authority, making it seem shameful to take orders. New techniques had to be devised. Sennett skillfully traces the...
But the announcement of the punishment never came. The student received a letter from Lewis saving that the College had "taken formal action" Terming the entire incident a "family affair." Lewis later explained that the College does not really consider the resolution of the complaint any of the student's...
THE EDITORS wisely leave out mention of Hickok's alleged affair with Eleanor Roosevelt, for Hickok's importance lies only in her reporting for the Federal Relief Administration. Apathy and despair, hope and joyfulness, take on real meaning in her smoothly-styled prose. Often she becomes emphatic--in her concerned...
In the first place, as he admits quite freely, we robbed a people of the right to self-determination by preventing elections in the 1950s. "The main reason for opposing these elections was that they would in all probability have resulted in a victory for Ho Chi Minh," not through...
THE AUTHOR FAILS to realize that his rigid portrait of ethnic America is as much a morality play as the others he wishes to refute. He implies throughout that the pasts of the different ethnic groups determine the groups' definitions of their roles and ambitions. Sowell can not explain why...