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...cast. American Protestant ism is committed." With these portentous words the Christian Century began an editorial last week on the recently launched United Evangelistic Advance (TIME, Oct. 10). The nationwide 15-month drive of 38 Protestant denominations to win "America for Christ" by every modern method of evangelism, says the Century," will bring America to an hour of decision concerning the free and evangelical faith which has found expression in the daily life and attitudes of its people...
...pretend to be an expert on Communism or any other kind of a political 'ism'," said Second-Baseman Robinson. ". . . But you can put me down as an expert on being a colored American, with 30 years' experience at it. And ... I know that life in these United States can be mighty tough for people who are a little different from the majority - in their skin color, in the way they worship their God, in the way they spell their names...
...week, with qualifications. Said Churchill: "We mean to set the people free, so far as possible and as soon as possible." He warned that if Socialism causes Britain's economic collapse, "we shall carry many other nations with us into chaos and Communism." He refurbished a famous Churchill-ism for use against the Laborites: "Never before in the history of human government has such great havoc been wrought by such small...
...right to quit is one of our greatest liberties," he said. He admitted that we must have a certain amount of social legislation but this does not necessarily fall under the heading of "me-too-ism...
Budenz obliged. In committing tailism, Browder was riding the ideological coattails of such "bourgeois" thinkers as Franklin Roosevelt. Opportunistic error, said Budenz, was failing to follow the Marxist-Leninist line. Revisionism was erroneously believing in peaceful progress towards socialism. And just plain Browder-ism: being guilty of all the other errors in one big lump...