Word: cabal
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...before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...
...reason alone. It is in agreement with this aphorism that the undergraduate who convinces himself prominence in a single sport is worth abandonment of his scholastic hopes, the business man who decides in favor of practices yielding immediate profit, the politician who discards platform policies to enter an oil cabal may all be following the path that seems to them the irrefutable correct one Philosophers and moralists, confronted with this ethical dilemma, have had recourse to various phrasings of the Golden Rule, saying that there is a distinction between "I want to" and "I thought", that we cannot escape...
...Author was born 43 years ago in Munich. His youth was spent learning about philosophy and literature among the wide avenues and beer gardens of Munich and Berlin. In 1905 he organized a cabal for the furtherance of modern literature ? an institution which was glared at by the fishy eyes of Imperialism. His plays ? especially Vasantasena which played 1000 times in eight years? made his reputation in Germany. The Ugly Duchess, published in England in the able and sensitive translation which is now to be released in the U. S., became vastly popular as had Author Feuchtwanger...
...entire motive behind the 'cabal,' now the caucus, has been the frustration of every social interest-of truth itself, whenever it threatens to interfere with special interest. It has the motive of the Camorra, the Black Hand, the Fascismo, to prevent the expression of ideas that question the infallibility of special judgments, regardless of their conformity with the facts of life or the laws and principles embedded in the nature of things, social, economic and industrial...
From time to time the charge has been repeated that American literature and drama is controlled by a semisecret cabal of radical young critics residing in New York, but the " exposure" has never been thorough. There were rumors; there were hints; but it remained for The Boston Post to analyze the critical dictatorship with a truly ruthless...