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Word: destructionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Boston's Mayor John Hynes did not want to hear arguments or evidence. He ordered that no licenses be issued for any more rock 'n' roll shows, and a Boston grand jury returned an indictment against Freed-under an old "anti-anarchy" law-for inciting "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rock 'n' Riot | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

For a poet such activity may be inevitable, and for Robert Johnston it is not completely fatal. The major function remaining to contemporary poets after the depredations of fiction, history, and science, seems to be the destruction of cliches. The struggles with words which characterize Johnston's newest poem may...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 5/13/1958 | See Source »

Water over the Dam. Mikoyan seemed perfectly ready to accept the continued existence of a divided Germany, and at a big official dinner he even made a proposal about it. "How dangerous for Germany to follow its present path," he said. "Atomic armament can only mean eventual unhappiness-and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Starting All Over | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

In June 1942, as Vichy France proved unable to cope with the growing resistance against the Nazi occupation. Adolf Hitler dispatched egg-bald SS General Karl Oberg to Paris with orders to get tough. Oberg did. In the next two years as head of the Nazi security police in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sparing the Butcher's Life | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

4. Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great World Brotherhood, sectarianism will continue to divide the world, isolate peoples, and stimulte conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space age. (Sometimes it is inter-sect strife which causes destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY NOT BROTHERHOOD? | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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