Word: dialecticism
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Professor Haushofer's Geopolitik-a strange conglomeration of objective fact, respectable theory, pseudo-scientific dialectic, scurrilous fanaticism-formed the chief intellectual disguise of Nazi aggression. The geopolitical devil did not die with the Haushofers.
Beasts of the World, Unite! Farmer Jones had a good farm, but he drank too much. One night, by the mystic operations of the historical dialectic, a leftist political theoretician appeared among his farm animals. He was old Major, a prize Middle White hog. Major addressed the other creatures:
Karl Shapiro's 2,072-line Essay on Rime was written in the Pacific, without access to books. Modest in tone but ambitious in purpose, it is the effort of a talented poet to keep writing in the midst of a war. But it is a disturbing indication of...
Three months ago, Jacques Duclos, bespectacled French Communist leader and Stalinist spokesman in western Europe, let loose a violent blast at U.S. Comrade Earl Browder. The complaint (couched in 7,000 words of dialectic diatribe): Browder, by dissolving the U.S. Communist Party and setting up the Communist Political Association, had...
History's shabby discards and their dejected heirs were cashing in on the fact and dialectic of disaster. Diaries, articles and book excerpts by Paul Reynaud, Maurice Gamelin, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Göring and Galeazzo Ciano had already appeared in hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, and there...