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Interests
Ismatism
Isolationism
“It ain’t over till the fat lady sings,”
Italian American
Jejeune
Jesus
Jihad
Jobs and growth
Journalese
Just cause
Juvenile delinquent
K- (prefix)
Kaafir
Kafkaesque
Kluge
Knack
Kowtow
Lackadaisical
Lambent
Latte liberal
Leftist
Legend
Liberal
Liberalism
Liberal-leftist
Liberation
Liberty
Life
Lifestyle
“Lighten up,”
Like
Likelier
Like wow!
Losing face
Lowbrow
Low-hanging fruit
Lubricious
Lucite
Lucubrate
Lucubration
Lust
Lustful
-ly (suffix)
Machiavellian
Madding
Mainstream
Manual transmission
Marriage
Me-firstism
Memory
Men’s wrestling
Me-tooism
Middlebrow
Middle class
“Middle-class liberals,”
Middle-of-the-roadism
Mighty
Minimal
Mission-critical
Mission statements
Molecular
Mom-ism
Mongoloid
Monstrous
Morale
Mother
Mugwump vote
Munge
Munich
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization,)
Nefarious
Negro
Negroid
Never
Newspeak
News, the
Nice-nellieism
Nobrow
Not
Nuclear
“Nuclear,”
Nugatory
Nylon
“Of a mature age and 70 years young,”
O.K.
Older
Old guard
-omatic (suffix)
“On the up and up,”
Opening the floodgates
Opportunity
Opsi- (prefix)
Opsigamy
Opsimath
Orlon
Orwellian
Oversharing
Pacification
Paper book
Particular
Partition
Patriot
Patriotic
Patriotism
P.D.Q.
Peace
Pearl Harbor
Peer pressure
Performancewise
Personal responsibility
Petard
Physical therapy
Pinko
Plagiarism
Plaintively
Plastic
Pleather
Politricks
Polyester
Polysyndeton
Pop
Populism
Populist
Post-
Postcapitalism
Postmodernism
Potatoes
Pre-
Precocious
Prejudice
Prepubescent
Preschool
Prewar
Private life
Private sector
Problems
Promiscuous
Propaganda
Protest
Protestor
Provide
Prurient
P’s
Quibble
Quite possibly
Racism
Radar
Ratchet
Rayon
Rebarbative
Rebels and rebellion
Receipt
Recuperate
Reel
Régime
Regime change
Regrettable
Rejectionists
Rents
Republic
Resistance, the
Responsibility
Retronyms
Revenue enhancement
Riff
Rightist
Right wing
Rile
Road warriors
“Rogue states,”
Roil
Roll
Rotary dial
Say
Schadenfreude
Scrog
Second superpower
Security
Semantic
Senior citizen
September
Serendipity
Sexism
S/he
Shit
Shock and awe
Shocking
Significantly
Silent movie
Slated
Slick
Slippery slope
Slungshot
Snafu
Sniffy
Snowball effect, the
S.O.B.
Socialite
Solutions
Special interests
Spelling bee
Spelling matches
Spelling schools
Spry
Status symbol
Steam locomotive
Stonewalling
Styrofoam
Succedaneum
Suitor
Superannuated
Surface mail
Synergies
Tarnation
Tenderly
Tergiversation
Terrible
Terrorism
Terrorist
Teutonic
The
Thin edge of the wedge, the
Third Age
Thought police
Thugs
Tragedy
Tree-density reduction
Trog
Ugh
Um
Unacceptable
Uncompromising
“Under God,”
Unidentified flying objects
Uninterested
Unperson
Unspeakable
Unutterable
Upper class
Urgent Fury
U.S.
Veep
Venture capitalist
Verdun
Vinyl
Virtual
Vision statements
Vivisepulture
Voluntary regulation
Volvo liberals
Waterloo
Will
Woo
Wops
Working class
Wrath
Wrinkly
Xanthosis
Xenophobia
Yadda-yadda
You know
Yuppie
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Abbas, Mahmoud
Abbreviations
ABC
Abélard, Pierre
Abortion, legal
Abstinence-only movement
Abstraction
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
Acrostics
Action words
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Admission process to preschool
Adverbs
African, The (Courlander)
Aged, age-disparing word against
Airlines program, for seniors
Albright, Madeleine
Alexander II, Czar
Alger, Horatio
Allen, Steve
All-news networks
Allport, Gordon
Al Qaeda
Amanpour, Christine
Ambrose, Stephen
American Dialect Society
Americ
an English
American Flag
American Held Hostage (television program)
American Heritage dictionary
Americanism
American Notes (Dickens)
Americans for Democratic Action
America the Beautiful (Sherr)
America the Beautiful (song)
AmeriCorps volunteer initiatives
Amis, Martin
Anderson, Benedict
Anderson, John
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Annan, Kofi
Antic Muse
Anti-terrorism bill
Arabs
and assassins
and compromise
and place names
Arendt, Hannah
Aronoff, Mark
Ashcroft, John
Augustine, Saint
Baby boomers
Bank accounts, senior
Barkley, Alban
Barney, Tina
Barzun, Jacques
Bates, Katharine Lee
Battle Hymn of the Republic (song)
Bel Air automobile
Bellamy, Francis
Bennett, William
Benton, Brook
Berlin, Irving
Berlin, Isaiah
Berlusconi, Silvio
Bevan, Aneurin
Biden, Joseph
Big Test, The (Lemann)
Big Three carmakers
Bin Laden, Osama
Biographia Literaria (Coleridge)
Björk
Blair, Tony
Blitz, Jeff
Blumenbach, Johannes
Boesky, Ivan
Bonds, Barry
Born in the U.S.A. (song)
Bowie, David
Branding
Braveheart (motion picture)
Bremer, Paul
Brennan, William
Brie
Britain
Brooks, David
Brooks, Garth
Browder, Earl
Bruce, Lennie
Bryan, William Jennings
Buckley, Lord
Buckley, William F.
Buffett, Warren
Bullfighter language program
Burger King
Burke, Edmund
Bush Dyslexicon, The (Miller)
Bush, George, H.W., Sr.
Bush, George, W., Jr.
and “evil,”
and freedom and Iraq war
and middle-of-the-roadism
misuse of language by
and popularism
and prescription drug program
propaganda of
and State of Union speech
and term for “resistance” in Iraq
and word “crusade,”
Business and doublespeak
Business writing
Cable news shows
Caesar, Sid
Cafferty, Jack
Caffin, Charles
Camel’s nose
Cameron, Julia
Campaign contributions
Cappon, Jack
Capra, Frank
Carelessly (song)
Carnegie, Andrew
Carter, Jimmy
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Castro regime
Catherine of Braganza
Caucasian
Chalabi, Ahmad
Chamberlain, Neville
Change in meaning of words and expressions
Chase, Chevy
Chastity belts
Cheney, Dick
Chesterton, G.K.
Childers, Thomas
Chirac, Jacques
Christian conservatism. See also Conservatives
Christo
Chrysler
Churchill, Winston
Cicero
Civil liberties
Civil unions
Clark, Dick
Clarke, Richard
Clark, Eugene
Class, categorization of
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
CNBC
CNN (Cable News Network)
Cold War
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
College Board
Collins, Wilkie
Color-blindness
Comedy Central Channel
Communism
Communist sympathizers in America
Community, national sense of
Conjunctions, repetition of
Conservatives
and attacks upon postmodernism
calling themselves “right wing,”
and class
and Clinton’s middle-of-the-roadism
and freedom
and patriotism
and racism
and radio talk shows
and use of polysyndeton
and use of term fascist
“Contract with America,”
Coolidge, Calvin
Corfam
Corporate culture
Corporate jargon
Coughlin, Father Charles
Coulter, Ann
Courlander, Harold
Courtship, language of
Creel Committee
Creel, George
Crimean War
Crimes and Misdemeanors (motion picture)
“Cross of Gold,”
Daily Show
Davis, Angela
Davis, Peter
D.C.
D-Day invasion
Deadwood
Dean, Howard
Dear Plastic (song)
Declaration of Independence
de la Renta, Oscar
Deloitte Consulting
Democratic party
Denver, Bob
Department of Health and Human Services
Desdemona
Diary of a Nobody, The (Grossmith, George and Weedon)
Dickens, Charles
Dictionaries
Dilbert
Dixie Chicks
Doublespeak
Douglas, Michael
Drucker, Peter
Dryden, John
Dukakis, Michael
Dunn, Alan
DuPont
Dylan, Bob
Eastman, Max
Educational Testing Service
Edwards, John
Eichmann, Adolf
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
and domino effect
and language
and State of Union speech language
Elements of Style, The (Strunk and White)
Elgin, Lord
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Eminem
Enron
Epstein, Joseph
Ethnic stereotypes
Eve of Destruction (song)
Fake Plastic Trees (song)
Fallacy of the heap
Fallows, James
Falwell, Jerry
Far from Heaven (motion picture)
Fenichell, Stephen
Finch, Peter
First Blood (motion picture)
Fischer, David Hackett
Fisher, Marc
Fish, Stanley
Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, The (Goodwin)
Flag, American
Flag-burning
Fleischer, Ari
Flynt, Larry
Folk etymology
Follett, Wilson
Foner, Eric
Ford Motor Company
Four Freedoms
Fowler, H. W.
Fox News Channel
Franklin, Benjamin
Frank, Thomas
Franzen, Jonathan
Freedom Council
French
and change of regimes
and dates signifying events
French Revolution
Friedman, Alexis
Gandhi, Mahatma
Garofalo, Janeane
Gay couple
Gehrig, Lou
General Motors
Gettysburg Addres
s
Gibbs, Wolcott
Gibson, William
Gingrich, Newt
Ginsberg, Alan
Girl Scouts of America
Gitlin, Todd
God Bless America (song)
Godwin, William
Goffman, Erving
Goldberg, Jonah
Golden Bowl, The (James)
Goldwater, Barry
Gonzáles, Elián
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Google
Gore, Al
Goss, Porter
Gove, Michael
Gove, Philip
Graduate, The (motion picture)
Graham, G. F.
Grammatical correctness
Grand Larousse French dictionary
Grant, Ulysses S.
Grateful Dead
Greeley, Horace
Greenberg, Clement
Greene, Graham
Green, Matthew
Greenwald, Dorothy
Gregori, Franceso de
Grossmith, George and Weedon
Growing Old in America (Fischer)
Grubman, Jack B.
Guillotine
Guiness, Alec
Haley, Alex
Hanson, Victor Davis
Harte, Bret
Haynes, Todd
Hayworth, J.D.
Hazlitt, William
HBO
Headlines, newspaper
Head Start
Hearst, William Randolph
Hearts and Minds (film documentary)
Hefner, Hugh
Heggy, Tarek
Helplessly Hoping (song)
Henry, Patrick
Hewison, Robert
Hipsters
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf
Hobsbawm, Eric
Hoffman, Abbie
Holiday, Billie
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Homosexual couple
Hood, John
Hoover, Herbert
Horatio Alger Society
Horowitz, David
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Howells, William Dean
Human resources departments
Hume, David
Ickes, Harold
Impala automobile
Infomercials
Initialisms
Innocents Abroad, The (Twain)
Internet and Websites
Iraq
and freedom and liberty
going to war in and compromise
pronunciation of word
and regime change
and self-consciousness regarding language
term for “resistance” in
and use of word “appeasement,”
I Shall Laugh Purely (Jeffers)
Italians
Italian Social Movement
It’s a Wonderful Life (motion picture)
Ivanhoe (Scott)
Ivins, Molly
Jackson, Janet
Jack, Wolfman
Jacobins
James, Henry
Jameson, Fredric
Jane Eyre (Brontë)
Jarrell, Randall
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffers, Robinson
John Paul II, Pope
Johnson, Hiram
Johnson, Hootie
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Samuel
Journalese
Jurassic Park (motion picture)
Just Cause, Operation
Kaczynski, Ted
Keegan, Kevin
Keller, Jon
Kemp, Jack
Kennedy, Kathleen
Kenton, Stan
Kerry, John
Kertesz, Andre
Key, Francis Scott
Kimmitt, Mark
King, Edward
King James Bible
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Peter
Kinsley, Michael
Kirkpatrick, John
Klein, Joe
Knox, Edward