Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...involved in this came as a surprise to me," he says. "It still does, sometimes." But Mansfield, ever the sage, says his one-time protege's presidential bid is not so unexpected. "It doesn't surprise me," Mansfield says. "I always thought he was taken by Alexander Hamilton's phrase in the Federalist Papers that love of fame is the ruling passion of the noblest minds...
...fact, the phrase is the epigraph to a chapter of Keyes' doctoral dissertation, written on ambition and statesmanship. Writing about Hamilton, Keyes argues that popular government relies on "individuals who would rise above the current of ordinary passion." Hamilton, Keyes continued, was no advocate of patriotic moderation. Government, he wrote, "involves the disposition to apply oneself unremittingly to the service of the nation." Keyes takes the classroom to his campaign. These are not academic questions for the ambassador. The other Republican candidates are unwilling to fulfill the role of moral steward, sketched out by Hamilton. "George W. Bush...is incapable...
...Charles Dickens and the only book by this author known to have survived, albeit in mutilated form: "The novel is entitled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles D--. The rest of the name has been gouged out by some crude tool and the phrase 'Vile Stuff!' written in a dye-based substance." Plato praises Dickens' comic inventiveness in creating something called evolution and puts Origin on a par with Don Quixote in its depiction of a totally deluded fictional hero...
Even before Nancy Reagan first uttered the phrase Just say no, Washington was putting out the word against drugs. Now it turns out Washington has also been slipping the word quietly into some popular TV shows. Last week the online magazine Salon reported that the Clinton Administration has accomplished a kind of ideological product placement. For more than a year, networks have submitted scripts for some of their shows to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. When that office was satisfied that effective antidrug messages had been written into episodes of ER, Chicago Hope and the Drew...
...have Swift's advantages of a stay-at-home husband and flexible working hours--never mind those single mothers on welfare who have suffered particularly under this administration. Swift also does a disservice to those government officials who are working mothers in the true sense of the phrase...