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Word: destructionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capp said the funniest thing in the thirties was any picture of Calvin Coolidge, claiming that humor was anything people laughed at. Shulman concurred in this definition, pointing out that the cynicism, parody and destruction that characterized the humor of another age were not funny today.

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Panel Finds What's Funny; Nixon Funniest, Says Capp | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

3.) Outlawing the atom bomb and all weapons of mass destruction.

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Squabbles Punctuate Young Progressives' College Career; New Membership List Ruling Caused Group to 'Hibernate' | 10/16/1952 | See Source »

But still, there is no point in the University threatening undergraduate organizations with destruction simply for competition's sake, especially when there is ample competition already. While Cine may be no such trumpet of doom, it is likely that importation of a theatre group or a full time, two-pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reel Trouble | 10/14/1952 | See Source »

Mankind in its hundreds of millions, is on the march toward what goal and with what destruction on the way no man can foretell. Whole nations have sunk out of sight behind the Iron Curtain; whole peoples have disappeared from view.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: STEVENSON ON COMMUNISM | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

The style was just as interesting. Most art historians have put the antique Roman painters down as stiff copyists of the Greeks. But the Pompeian Venus has an easy flow of line, more than a small touch of expressionism-as if the Pompeians had begun to develop a style of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Venus under the Ashes | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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