The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

Delphine was a pace-setter in high society.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Athenian society was split into two factions, the Philistines and the Artists.

It was this fear which explained the development of a priestly caste whose function in society was to mollify and appease the angry deities.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Particularly was this true as laissez-faire capitalism became the dominant credo of Western society.

Indeed, contract was the dominant legal theme of the century, the touchstone of the free society.

It did not serve to contrast the existing order of society with a possible alternative order, because the age of innocence was not a possible alternative once man had sinned.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

Proper ritual observance at any level of society was capable of generating power for use in the spirit world ; ;

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

There was a tendency in late eighteenth century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved according to certain principles and that could be observed empirically.

From 1764 onwards, there was a gradual change from a slave-based society to one based on production for domestic consumption and export.

A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

The intellectual society of this era was characterized by itinerant scholars, who were often employed by various state rulers as advisers on the methods of government, war, and diplomacy.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

J. J. Bachofen advocated that Athena was originally a maternal figure stable in her security and poise but was caught up and perverted by a patriarchal society ; this was especially the case in Athens.

In Poland, where the bulk of Yiddish-speaking Jewry had established itself by the 18th century, three branches of Yiddishkheit emerged: those who opposed the predominant study of Kabbalah ( Jewish mysticism ) and those who supported it ; and the Yiddish theater culture of secularism also in Lithuania originally but getting to the whole Yiddish speaking society.

More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The name was associated originally with a society of Oxford University's University College, initiated by the then undergraduate Edward Tangye Lean circa 1931, for the purpose of reading aloud unfinished compositions.

The idea was considered incendiary since it suggested that power can ultimately go back to the individuals if the political society that they have set up forfeits the purpose for which it was originally established, which is to preserve themselves.

As Claude Lévi-Strauss would put it: the birth " would consist, therefore, in making explicit a situation originally existing on the emotional level and in rendering acceptable to the mind pains which the body refuses to tolerate ... the woman believes in the myth and belongs to a society which believes in it.

Vassmer's etymological dictionary traces the name to an Old East Slavic, originally from Cuman Cosac-a free man, specifically an individual who could not find his appropriate place in society and went into the steppes, where he acknowledged no authority.

The Culture is a posthuman society, which originally arose when seven or eight roughly humanoid space-faring species coalesced into a quasi-collective ( a group-civilization ) ultimately consisting of approximately thirty trillion ( short scale ) sentient beings ( this includes artificial intelligences ).

Primitive promiscuity ( or original promiscuity ), was the ( largely discredited ) 19th-century hypothesis that humans originally lived in a state of promiscuity or " hetaerism " prior to the advent of society as we understand it.

The Thule Society was originally a " German study group " headed by Walter Nauhaus, a wounded World War I veteran turned art student from Berlin who had become a keeper of pedigrees for the Germanenorden ( or " Order of Teutons "), a secret society founded in 1911 and formally named in the following year.

As the story progresses, it becomes clear that San Lorenzon society is more bizarre and cryptic than originally revealed.

Set in 1949-50 Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot ( played by William Holden ), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor Han Suyin originally from China ( played by Jennifer Jones ), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society.

" ( originally a Marx Memorial Lecture, " The British Working Class One Hundred Years after Marx ", that was delivered to a small audience of fellow Marxists in March 1978 before being published in Marxism Today in September 1978 ), he argued that the working class was inevitably losing its central role in society, and that left-wing parties could no longer appeal only to this class ; a controversial viewpoint in a period of trade union militancy.

While the following does not represent the WB view of society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim these prejudices never existed.

The female given name " Barbara " originally meant " a barbarian woman ", and as such was likely to have had a pejorative meaning — given that most such women in Graeco-Roman society were of a low social status ( often being slaves ).

It was originally known as the Protestant society and was organ ized as the Presbyterian church in December, 1808.

A buzzword ( also fashion word ) is a term of art, salesmanship, politics, or technical jargon that is used in the media and wider society outside of its originally narrow technical context, often in an inaccurate manner, or for purposes other than the conveying of information.

He continued saying " A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

The Bajoran people were originally divided into castes, called d ' jaras, that dictated a person's place in Bajoran society ; members of a lower-ranking d ' jara were expected to defer to those of a higher caste.

Wabi originally referred to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society ; sabi meant " chill ", " lean " or " withered ".

The society was originally developed as a club for " pure Americans ".

Research showed that one man who was dedicated was not a native to the Titicaca Basin, leaving room to think that dedications were most likely not of people originally within the society.

The United States of America, while originally developing out of a group of British colonies, was settled in part by religious dissenters from the established Church of England, who desired a civil society founded on a different religious vision.

Rooted somewhere in the mists of the 1940s, originally the outgrowth of an unhappy group of women students protesting on-campus policies, Mufti is a secret society of punsters-as-social-commentators.