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he invoked Kipling; she foreshadowed Duck Dynasty

Beyond the religious right, the governor of Alaska was a relative unknown. Palin introduced herself at the Republican National Convention as a real American from the small town of Wasilla, population ten thousand. “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity,” she s…

—p.209 n+1 Issue 33: Overtime On John McCain (198) missing author
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sobriquet

He acquired the sobriquet “maverick” in the mid-’90s

—p.206 On John McCain (198) missing author
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lugubrious

the lugubrious interviewee America got to know from his films in the 1960s

—p.188 On recent film (179) by A S Hamrah
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sacralizing

notions of individual responsibility and private entrepreneurship that were subsequently sacralized by the Reagan-Thatcher revolution in the 1980s

—p.170 The Painful Sum of Things (159) by Nikil Saval, Pankaj Mishra
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misprision

Whatever the misprision, these writings were twinned for me

—p.167 The Painful Sum of Things (159) by Nikil Saval, Pankaj Mishra
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