Word: deweyitis
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This, according to the dominant theory of education lumped under the name of John Dewey, is a desirable development of their "social skills." By cutting short the pigtail pulling and stuck-out-tongue phase that kids usually go through, parents feel that they are helping their youngsters bypass the awkward age. Learning early how to handle themselves socially and dress smartly, the children become well-adjusted and popular...
...though the election is still seven months away, much of the press is already talking of Nixon as a potential loser. Columnist Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently compared Nixon to Thomas E. Dewey as a man with a losing habit...
...going. " In Moscow, immediately after his harangue with Khrushchev, "Ernie Barcella the correspondent for United Press International, came alongside and whispered in my ear, 'Good going, Mr. Vice President.'" After a speech in New York: "The audience gave me a standing ovation. As I sat down, Governor Dewey grasped my hand and said: 'That was a terrific speech...
...prosperous retail jeweler. Through the years he parlayed his Newburgh, N.Y. shop into a chain of ten stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart ailment, complicated by diabetes. He sold his busi ness and moved to Phoenix...
...father was a geographer, his mother an illiterate peasant (who chose his wife for him when he was eleven). Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy, won a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"). He went on to study at Columbia under the pragmatic philosopher John Dewey and became one of his outstanding disciples. Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. Literature was much more than just enjoyment: on his return to China in 1917, he crusaded for the paihua (vernacular language) movement, which gave that vast land...