Word: dialecticism
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What democracy needs is faith in herself-faith to combat fanaticism, and a dialectic realism to combat dialectic materialism. Historical and evolutionary trends, in the long view, are on the side of freedom and the brotherhood of man, as against regimentation and the comradery of the Politburo.
One day last week, the New York Times filled nearly two columns with a letter from Moscow. Signed by one Dmitry Shisheyev, chief engineer in a machine-tool plant, it replied, in good Union Square dialectic, to a Times survey comparing the hours spent by typical Russian and American workers...
"The Muse cannot help being an intellectual," said the Tsar generously, "but I do not think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me...
The picture leans a little too much on strained circumstance and unmitigated whimsy, but it has its moments. Shirley, in her climaxes of calf love, sees her hero in shining armor, putting on his helmet exactly as if it were a snap brim. Writer Sidney Sheldon has inserted a bit...
Togliatti's sinuous dialectic had been so smooth that it evoked chuckles and even admiration from his enemies. In the stunned galleries one old woman kept biting her lip and shaking her head in reluctant respect, mumbling: "He's a clever devil, he's a clever devil...