This is mainly because aside from the nurses and
jingoists, everyone else is cordoned off into one big group of weepy wailers, waiting for their men to come home to love, or bury.
A gap, of perhaps only a generation separates him from the Other Side, the source of his grandparents' immigration; all the same, he is a
jingoist of the strictest type.
She also gestures towards the still under-studied impact of visual propaganda such as postcards, posters, and book jackets as key players in furthering a
jingoist ethos on the home front.
Perhaps the most useful section of the introduction is the breakdown, or deconstruction if you prefer, of the seven major "causes" usually cited to explain the outbreak of war in 1914: nationalism, Social Darwinism, imperialism, militarism, the
jingoist press, domestic pressure groups, and the "slide" theory, the last being most closely tied to the war plans argument.
Do we really need a
jingoist, hysterical speech about a narrow nationalism, with much ranting and raving to bring a huge crowd to eye-bulging hate-filled fever pitch in this day and age?
Opposing the mounting racist and
jingoist violence and ultranationalism in Germany in the 1920s, he worked for European unity and supported organizations seeking to protect Jews against growing anti-Semitic violence.
That
jingoist attitude continues to underpin most of American intellectual analysis of Muslim-world events and shapes the U.S.
Godkin, founding editor of this magazine and an important press critic, observed that because public passions were easily aroused in foreign affairs, the press "made the moderate ground difficult for a diplomatist." Clearly, the influence of sensational,
jingoist coverage on more balanced news outfits did not begin with the influence of Fox News over CNN and MSNBC.
The production, however, held back from becoming de facto
jingoist: if John was Saddam Hussein, King Edward fared little better.
New York City Ballet fares rather belier in the
jingoist stakes, with only six foreign-born principals out of twenty-two.
But nonetheless, if one insists on labeling me a
jingoist for my pro-Enlightenment bent, I will wear the badge as proudly as champions of multiculturalism wear theirs.
``I'm not at all a warmongerer or a big time flag-waving
jingoist but once I'd started the project it became a partly bio-graphical appreciation of the people I'd known as a child.
