Word: deweyitis
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...specials every primary day. The ability of the media to predict public opinion has taken the fun and luck out of politics. Under today's system there's no chance that we'll ever see the excitement of a surprise upset such as Harry Truman's win against Dewey...
That working-class unity crumbles when it comes to Jesse Jackson. "I really don't think it's a racist thing between Jesse and the whites, at least not here," observes the Sandwich King's white proprietor, Dewey Lawing, 60. "He's just too radical, and we don't trust him." A black machine operator in his late 30s takes a pragmatic approach to Jackson. "Don't think that we're such fools that we don't see the same faults in Jesse that white people see," he says. "But we're going to vote for him anyway. And then...
...segment of the Democratic Party weary of constant neo- identity crises. In late 1949, when Simon became eligible to vote, he wrote a column for the tiny weekly newspaper in Illinois that he published, explaining why he had become a Democrat. The year before, he had endorsed Republican Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman. His change of heart, the youthful Simon explained, came because he preferred the Democrats' commitment to "world peace" and "genuine world free trade" and faulted the Republicans for their backsliding on "civil rights" and their antilabor sentiments symbolized by the Taft-Hartley Act. The same thoughts...
Hirsch's villain is Educational Philosopher John Dewey, who, in his landmark 1915 treatise Schools of Tomorrow, espoused the learning of skills rather than information. The long-range result, says Hirsch, is that children can now decode words but lack the understanding to put what they read into broad, insightful context. The Hirsch antidote: heavy doses of Western cultural lore, as represented by a list of nearly 5,000 entries in an appendix labeled "What Literate Americans Know," ranging from A ("act of God") to Z ("Zeitgeist"), and including "1066" and "White Christmas (song)." Knowing at least a commercial idea...
Biro, a second-year student who won a $10 gift certificate to the B-School's pub for his literary endeavor, addressed his letter to "Mr. Rich Sonbitch at Dewey, Screwon & Howe...