Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I am not pleading for my state because we have had little trouble with integration but for the Deep South where there is a truly serious problem," McKeldin stated. The country must realize that the Civil War destroyed the South's social system, and proceed with the necessary caution, he...
The systematic destruction of Stalin's "cult of personality" by Russia's new masters (see FOREIGN NEWS) is beginning to shake Soviet painters as well as the commissars. Instead of the models of heroic realism, which Russian painters have been forced for decades to turn out with machinelike...
There is irony, if not yet tragedy, in the contrast between the issues which these interrelated forces are creating--questions involving no less than the survival or destruction of our Western society--and those which are likely to engage our principal political energies in the election of 1956.
"If we get arms," said Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, "there will be no war. If we don't get them, there will be a war, and we will win after great and needless destruction on both sides."
"By the time the exceptional student reaches college, he has had eight years' training in how not to be exceptional. The unusual student who can survive all this-the destruction of initiative, the repression of spontaneity-is exceptionally exceptional." So spoke California Institute of Technology Psychologist John R. Weir...