Word: deweyitis
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...have dropped out, transferred, or been gently "counseled out" before graduation. For the survivors, learning can be exciting. Bennington girls have, in fact, been spotted reading poetry by flashlight while perched in a tree. Philosopher-Lawyer Bloustein, who in his own education tended toward the "interdisciplinary development that John Dewey suggested," looks forward to presiding over a school where "an individual can involve himself in two or more distinct disciplines." He will teach at least one course himself. "Ideas are the thing," he says. "At Bennington, even the trustees have ideas...
...them with complete self-assurance. He was often profoundly right, especially in his early diagnosis of the dangers of Nazism. He could also be spectacularly wrong. In the close 1948 presidential election, which tried the stamina of most pundits, he kept insisting, long after it was prudent, that Tom Dewey would win by an "overwhelming vote." Later Truman enjoyed imitating H.V.'s commentary in H.V.'s voice. Kaltenborn did not resent it; he mimicked Truman mimicking...
...hand were former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, now describing himself as a "politician emeritus"; Los ing Presidential Nominees Tom Dewey, Dick Nixon and Barry Goldwater (the only other one still living, Alfred...
Most of the other G.O.P. leaders could hardly have agreed less with Goldwater. Tom Dewey, noting the top-heavy registration advantage that Democrats have in New York City, said, "Naturally, labels are attractive to Democrats and unattractive to Republicans." Said Nixon of Lindsay: "For him to be identified on a partisan basis would not help his cause." Then Nixon offered Lindsay his help-although he had not yet been asked...
...still struggling out of the Depression. Sampling only those people wealthy enough to have phones gave an inaccurate cross-section of voters. After the election returns were in, the Digest was denounced by press and pollsters alike; it soon folded. But in 1948, when the pollsters predicted a Dewey victory over Truman, Funk enjoyed a belated revenge. "I do not want to seem to be malicious, but 1 can't help but get a good chuckle out of this...