Word: diversionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Hopper, this news may be merely a Russian "diversion." He pointed out that the last such diversion was the 1948-9 Berlin air-lift "during which china slipped away," and added, "Whenever I find anything obvious, I look on the other side of the globe for the real...
Now one of the serious consequences of the pressures of this period of rearmament is the diversion of scholars to immediate problems. Partial mobilization has accentuated the trend toward overemphasis on the practical which is a consequence of the type of society in which we live. For example, in the...
"People have got to concentrate when you start giving them the old habeas corpus mandamus potatus. Don't try to be required reading. Be a diversion . . . You remind me of an old ham in vaudeville stretching his laughs and sweating his bows and keeping the other acts hanging around...
One aspect of his saucer research saddens Dr. Menzel. People like sensations, he says. The marvelous ships from space, manned by wise little people from Venus or Mars, brought a kind of frightening diversion into a jittery world. Dr. Menzel is aware that a debunker is not always a popular...
In Manhattan, Critic George Jean Nathan, 70, an amateur baseball fan, told the New York Times that there were some things still beneath his notice: "I take no interest in politics . . . It is the diversion of trivial men, and when they succeed at it, they become important in the eyes...