After that, Hayek had years in the intellectual wilderness, while the Keynesians bestrode the world.

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Andrew Jackson bestrode his era like a colossus, so much so that it is called the Age of Jackson.

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But philosophers and political theorists, some of whom (Hayek, Berlin, Popper and so on) once bestrode public debate, these days scarcely get a look in.

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They bestrode the southern horizons, snow-capped and voluptuous and spectacular.

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Robinson in "Little Caesar"...or maybe best of all, Gary Cooper, "The Virginian" -- or Johnny Mack Brown, the Alabama running back (hero of the Rose Bowl in 1926), who now bestrode the screen as Billy the Kid.

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