Posted on 06/08/2008 4:54:30 PM PDT by neverdem
You don't have to agree with everything in this monumental account of politics in the 1960s and 1970s to find Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland" (Scribner, 896 pages, $37.50) interesting and even engrossing. The book is a masterful retelling of the turbulent period between the crushing defeat of Barry Goldwater by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and the equally stunning loss by George McGovern to Richard Nixon in 1972.
Mr. Perlstein's use of the elections of 1964 and 1972 as ideological goalposts may be arbitrary, but it is easy to see why he selected them. Could two such different countries really be separated by eight short years? It was as if a great dam broke following Johnson's election. He signed the historic Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, which led one observer to declare, "There is no more civil rights movement." Five nights later, the Watts district in Los Angeles erupted in one of many major race riots to come. Drug taking, which had been largely confined to the ghetto and the cultural avant-garde, was mainstreamed and celebrated. A tiny antiwar movement mushroomed into a national mobilization campaign, involving the seizure of college campuses (Columbia University) and resulting in the shooting of student protesters (Kent State).
The liberal consensus — represented by Johnson's triumphant performance in 1964, with 61.05 percent of the popular vote and 486 of 538 Electoral College votes — seemed to signal the country's embrace of the great Democratic coalition built by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two short political cycles later, that coalition was in tatters — a casualty of antiwar and countercultural excesses and the near absolute takeover of the party by elites devoted to a more radical extension of liberal policies than could be countenanced by the voters who normally animated Democratic turnout. The same Mayor Richard...
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“Sea Change”? what is that? The heading for this article shows the ignorance of the MSM and many others, when they wish to indicate a major change of some kind.
The correct expression is “C” change, which refers to changing a tune from the Middle ‘C’ as the “anchor” on a piano to a higher or lower ‘C’ key for that tune or piece of music.
Once that is done the whole tenor of the music changes and is the source for the expression. Our media is so ignorant as are many of its readers that they use “sea” change without understanding why this should indicate a huge change or be the source for the experssion.
“Sea Changes” is the name of a book I used to own. I gave it to a friend. I found it to be a boring novel.
Year was 1992. It was a hard cover book. I cannot find it through google.
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Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
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sea change
–noun
1. a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
2. any major transformation or alteration.
3. a transformation brought about by the sea.
[Origin: 1600–10]
Meaning
A radical, and apparently mystical, change.
Origin
From Shakespeare's The Tempest, 1610:
ARIEL [sings]: Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
"Sea Change" has actually been in common usage for decades when describing a dramatic diiference in state.
Thanks taking the lead and informing those who were not brought up with Shakespeare (William Shakespeare, England’s greatest writer) of one of the many bits and pieces of his enduring contributions to the English language and to human wisdom.
Me and so many others.
Poor FARS!
You forgot to add the REAL name of England’s greatest writer: Edward Devere, the Earl of Oxford.
You just taught me something I didn’t know - the “C” change referring to music!!
Sometimes when a word or phrase is used for years, correctly or incorrectly, it ends up in Webster’s Dictionary. Guess they quit fighting it, lol.
They do list ‘sea change’ as a transformation or something changed by the sea.
When a teenager in Galveston I felt a ‘sea change’ each time I swam in the ocean [Gulf]. Lying on your back and floating in the sunshine and comfort of the waves and you would feel a sense of peace and tranquility unmatched.
Just a memory that might not make sense to all.
LOL!
And here all this time I thought it was that other fellow, also named Shakespeare...or was it that poet who was exiled to Paris (the great name slips my aging mind...)
Marlowe?
The pendulum swings. In 1964 voters gave LBJ JFK's second term, thinking he would be "moderate". Instead, the left went nuts and blew it big time in '68 and '72. Too bad if the liberal kooks get back into power this cycle. With overt marxist Obama they may just have gone overboard again.
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I could post a graphic.....
First time I’ve laughed out loud in awhile!!
No graphics!! I have one of a girl floating in the water but this is a serious thread. Note my serious comments....
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LOL!
Well.....
‘peace and tranquility ‘ were the keywords.
Having grown up and gone to school in England, the Shakespeare version was never referenced as the basis for the expression. The musical one was the standard.
Then again, here we have an American language based on other parameters that are accepted here but like having “fit” insead of the grammatically older and more correct “fitted” for the past participle, denotes variations that are USA only.
Or new schooling modes that vary from original concepts but defend tha changes with “languages are living things and change is to be acccepted”
Or the affectation of pronouncing “herb” as “erb” thus “herbal” as “erbal” and thus requiring your friend Herbert to become the Cockney “’Erbert”. Cockneys pretty much drop all their “h’s”.
Also in America pronouncing an “h” followd by an “u” as a “y” thus “yuman” for Human.
Reminds me of trying to interpret Afghan Dari Farsi. Although Persian Farsi is the official language taught in Afghan schools, Afghan Dari Farsi fluctuates almost by the individual’s home valley and can end up a mix of Farsi, Pashtun and Tajik variation used in a particular valley.
Less or totally uneducated women also use their local dialect/vocabulary only. On one ocasion I could understand and converse easily with a woman’s Dari speaking husband, who had gone to school but could not understand a word she was saying - in her version of Dari.
The Turd’s regime in Iran has banned foreign words so they have invented a new vocabulary for words like ‘computer” that are lingua franca worldwide. Or for “helicpter” (though pronounced with a Farsi accented stresses). Helicopters are now “spinning wings” in the new Mullah Farsi.
Meanwhile, though the Mullahs rely on Koranic Arabic and have coined and used Arabic words much of the population does not even understand, several universities, fed up with the Mullahs are resorting to replacing commonly used Arabic words(even before the revolution) with pure Persian Farsi from before the Islamic era in Iran.
Revered, ancient authors/poets like Ferdowsi and Saadi’s sagas made it a point to write without using a single Arabic word in reaction to the Islamic yoke they faced in their own days.
I think the tide has turned and there are more historians who now believe there actually was a Shakespeare.
Not in my 53 years in America. I'm trying to think of an American dialect that would pronounce it that way but I can't. Nor do we pronounce names like Herbert with a silent 'h.'
Watch TV! The Yuman is a regular with Gingrich and some others.
The ‘erbal is the staple of ads for salad dressings and commentators.
And movies.
The fact you do NOT pronounce the name Herbert with a silent ‘h’ is exactly the proof of the fallacy of ‘erbal “affectation”.
You are clearly “old school”. My deepest respects.
cheers
Meaning
A radical, and apparently mystical, change.
Origin
From Shakespeare’s The Tempest, 1610:
ARIEL [sings]:
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
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Hate to bust your bubble.
Now you know.
“A Sea Change”; Lois Gould, 1977. Has a great lesbian sex scene.
[President] Johnson... signed the historic Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, which led one observer to declare, "There is no more civil rights movement." Five nights later, the Watts district in Los Angeles erupted in one of many major race riots to come.Weird coincidence, huh? Gee, I'm sure that won't happen again, right after Obama is elected president... Thanks FARS and neverdem.
Drug taking, which had been largely confined to the ghetto and the cultural avant-garde, was mainstreamed and celebrated. A tiny antiwar movement mushroomed into a national mobilization campaign, involving the seizure of college campuses (Columbia University) and resulting in the shooting of student protesters (Kent State).Another weird coincidence. ;')
Bit late for bubbles but read my reply to that assertion.
cheers
The mad mullahs are pretty close to the militay mark. When the discussion is aircraft it's common to describe them as fixed wing or rotary wing.
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'erbal' (herbal with a silent 'h') is not an affectation it is the way herb and herbal are pronounced in the United States. The fact that the names Herb, Herbert and so forth are not pronounced with a silent 'h' is the proof that it is no affectation. Should be obvious.
Clemenza’s post led me to Google the Earl of Oxford, and I must say they do lay out a convincing case for the fellow.
I was disappointed when I found out who Deep Throat was, but this particular revelation is more interesting.
Rather like getting the real names of Mark Twain, Lewis B. Carroll, and Cary Grant to name a few fictious names that have been used in the past.
I don't. But then my father using to pronounce 'among' without the u sound I as an American use. And I didn't pick up my mother's pronunciation of hog or fog, preferring to rhyme them with frog and dog .
But they won when it came to saying human with an h. And I just looked at sherbet on my own and starting pronouncing it without a second r.
I'll never forget ignorantly trying to convince a Chinese who had learned the Queen's English to say "says" as 'sez' not the way it is spelled.
If there really wasn't, then I think the most likely culprit was Marlowe. Marlowe actually possessed the underlying talent for writing, whereas DeVere, from his early writing,s really did not possess the kind gift that one would expect from the greatest wordsmith the English language has known.
I think Woodward and Bernstein were essentially lying as to who Deep Throat really was. I tend to think it was actually Al Haig. Haig and Woodward actually knew each other when Woodward was a Navy Lieutenant working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Woodward would make visits to the National Security Council's *Command Center* in the basement of the White House. General Haig had an office there.
In a radio interview in 1977, Victor Lasky, author of the bestselling book It Didn't Start With Watergate (Dutton, 1977) told talk show host George Putnam that he emphatically believed there was no "Deep Throat." Taking note of Woodward and Bernstein's claim to have met him in a Washington, DC parking garage late at night, Lasky remarked that if they had actually done so, they would have been mugged.
I still believe Lasky was right.
I've never heard anyone use "yuman" for "human." Perhaps you are mistaken, and the word you heard was "Yuman," which refers to Indians who inhabit the lower Colorado River valley--or to citizens of a city in southwestern Arizona.
I would like to set you straight:
Many instances on TV including a couple of times by Newt Ginfrich and others. I’m a linguist, so I spot it..
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