Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Dr. Ziuf's letter is not pertinent to the issue of class-room abuse. His attack on teachers who show themselves to be pro-Ally is merely a part of his larger attack on the "Benedict Arnolds." The latter phrase refers, in his letter, to "the unpaid efforts of thousands of Americans to conduct pro-Ally propaganda." In effect, anyone who supports a policy of aid to the Allies in the present juncture is a traitor. The use of this epithet invites attention to Dr. Zipf's remarks on "emotional involvement...
...critical analysis of our emotional position. But a great deal of current discussion assumes that "emotional involvement" is confined to a pro-Ally position. It is not true that the other position may represent "emotional involvement"? I offer in evidence Dr. Zipf's letter, using phrases such as "Benedict Arnolds," "despicable type of disloyalty," "educated fool," "copperheads," "hypocritical agitation under cover of the academic gown" (cf. the full text of his letter in the "Herald"). The unreflective emotional content of a verbal communication is often directly proportional to the number of such phrases and adjectives. Any appeal to reason...
...next war" is here, and thanks to the volunteer unpaid efforts of these Benedict Arnolds, we are now so thoroughly involved emotionally that even the attitude of an armed American neutrality may soon be construed by them as evidence of membership in some "deeply subversive fifth column." After all, these tactics of "if you are not with me you are against me" proved their deadly value in the hands of the Nazis years...
...Recent benedict George Leslie Harrison, 53-year-old president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York at $50,000 a year. New job: president of New York Life Insurance Co. at a probable $75,000 a year...
...handsome Norman Towner, 18, who likes to write and play tennis, and his sister Shirley, 15, who wants to be a xylophonist. Norman and Shirley scouted around, enlisted in their group Reno's most popular and active youths, among them: Football Guards Bill and Jac Shaw, Socialist Joe Benedict (whose mother arrived in Reno two years ago for a divorce), Bill Eccles, son of Nevada's Republican State chairman, Forrest W. Eccles. Last week they distributed all over the State a Youth's newspaper: Here and Now, "The Interests and Opinions of Nevada's Young People...