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...well as the most neglected and most needed. There is almost a conspiracy of silence on this phase of the problem--not deliberate, but certainly testifying to the immense strength of the sectarian evil you so ably discuss. Yours is almost a voice in the wilderness,"--John Dewey...
...community," he joined in the growing newspaper war on the corrupt Pendergast machine, and kept firing until Pendergast was destroyed. "I'd rather report than eat," said the editor, who excelled at both. He loved to play politics, and became a kingmaker in the Republican Party, backing Dewey, Willkie and Ike; he also lent a helping hand to a local Democratic boy, Harry Truman. Dubbed "Mr. Kansas City," he once boasted: "I'll have the biggest damn funeral Kansas City has ever seen. They'll all come out to see their old master laid away...
Down with Dewey...
RIGHT. Is it Dewey Threwey or Duway Thruway? Might as well edge up to 70. Everybody knows speedometers overread. NO BICYCLES OR PEDESTRIANS ALLOWED...
...Lasch is not knocking his subjects for their naive assessment of human nature, although this charge is implicit in any discussion of Dewey and Deweyites. He raps them on a more basic matter: for their incomplete participation in the revolution in standards and for developing a brand of moral relativism that was constitutionally incapable of taking a stand against the encroachments of power. "The new radicals were torn between their wish to liberate the unused energies of the submerged portions of society and their enthusiasm for social planning, which led in practice to new and subtler forms of repression...