Word: deweyitis
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...contained in the words "American Catholic." In the historical reality behind those words St Ignatius Loyola, founder of John Courtney Murray's order and soldier-saint meets Citizen Tom Paine, soldier-atheist. St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court, the apostolic succession meets the clapboard Congregationalist Church, the Sacred Roman Rota meets Reno...
What caused its decline is chiefly a combination of Protestant theology and modern rationalist philosophy. "The new rationalism," as Murray describes the thought of men like John Dewey and Bertrand Russell, sees man as autonomous, beneath no knowable God, with...
...dead run, each day drives up to 200 golf balls 200 yds.) Jewish by family background, he was converted to Catholicism after reading St. Thomas Aquinas at Brooklyn's St. John's University. He took his doctorate at Columbia, where, despite the ubiquitous influence of John Dewey, he remained a disciple of Aquinas...
...doesn't he go back to Hyannisport and do the rest from his front porch?" asked a weary reporter. Instead, Kennedy stepped up the tempo, exhorted his fagged aides to renewed action. "This is no Dewey operation," he said to them in a husky voice. "We're not going to take any time off from now on. Nixon could still win this campaign...
After this lavish warm-up, Kennedy turned on all his political steam: he said he had come to New York "without an escort" and quipped that Tom Dewey was out in California "giving Dick Nixon some last-minute advice on strategy." "You all know the elephants in the circus--little imagination and long memory--how each hangs on to the tail of the one in front. Well, in 1952 and 1956, Dick Nixon hung on to that tail, but this year he's running alone." Kennedy listed, selectively, some 20th century Republican candidates ("just listen to those names") and said...