Normalcy
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Harding called for "a return to normalcy." |
"A return to
normalcy" was
United States presidential candidate
Warren Harding's campaign promise in the
election of 1920. Although the word was a
neologism, coined by Harding, the implied concept apparently encapsulated what Americans wanted, since he was elected president over his
Democratic opponent
James Cox.
Normalcy has been defined by a historian (P. Massie) as "The good old days that never were."
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"Normalcy" The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3th ed., edited by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., et al. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. http://www.bartleby.com/59/
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"Normalcy" - The Mavens' Word of the Day*
A Time for Normalcy by Evan Jenkins,
Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2002
