Word: deweyism
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...yearning for a fresh face. "I can't tell you why I voted for Hart," said Renee Goldenburg, a Coral Gables, Fla., housewife. "I just wanted someone completely new." Mondale's followers, on the other hand, often cited their man's stand on specific issues. Said Dewey Blair, a Georgia machine operator: "I think Mondale would be more inclined to listen to ideas for making the tax structure more fair for working people...
...years later Shawn and Harold Ross, the magazine's founding editor, assigned him to write about politics as if he were a critic-reviewing a book or play. Thereafter, diffident and a bit owlish, the critic plied the provinces with nearly every would-be President from Thomas Dewey to Jimmy Carter. Rovere also found time to write eight nonfiction books and countless shorter works, most notably a straight-faced 1961 article for American Scholar on the existence of an "American Establishment," a spoof so successful that scholars began debating the subject seriously...
...There was some toughness in that look--there was more toughness in that era--but I saw in it a prophecy that welcome words were about to come out of my mouth. The tradition of our profession are not all in texts from Plato and Rousseau and Dewey; many of the most important are intangible and unrecorded. The codeword these days is "eye contact," but this cold phrase doesn't capture the intensity and pride which many of us remember from our earliest encounters with learning...
...membership approved this change unanimously, and we're very happy about it," said Thomas E.L. Dewey '85, president of the Spee Club...
...basement was unused, and we see ourselves as following the lead of other clubs that have begun to rent space in their buildings," said Dewey...