Word: faddism
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...dredging up the most radical notions of our Founding Fathers (for small farms, against a standing army). But the days of Jefferson and Jackson were long over and the once infant country now grappled with the more complex issues of corporate dominance and the contradictions of capitalism. Radical faddism for all its short term benefits served more to fuel the conservative backlash than accomplish any real change...
...detailed documentation of economic trends, quoting labor, Congressional and industrial leaders and analysts to add color to what could have been a very bleak subject.Even if Rifkin and Barber's next book, on the economic significance of the evangelical movement in the U.S., denotes a return to radical faddism, The North Will Rise Again will stand...
...hand into a pyramid of oil wells, was eccentric even for a self-made billionaire. Before he died in November 1974, Hunt became a legend for his backing of ultra-right-wing causes, his penny-pinching (he often carried his lunch in a brown paper bag) and his health faddism (he used to crawl around his Dallas mansion on all fours for exercise). The youngest of his five sons, Ray Hunt, 34, is quiet almost to the point of being self-effacing. Yet surprisingly, Ray has wound up running-and streamlining -about half of the empire that H.L. once commanded...
Moreover, as TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey notes, "There is about Washington an element of faddism, a tendency to fall head over heels in love with a new guy, then turn savagely against him when he does not deliver. We are not sure of the effects of Carter's economic package. His relations with Congress are not certain. The energy policy that he has promised is yet to be delivered. We just cannot seem to find a cautious middle ground. So right now, a lot of things are being said and written about Jimmy Carter that make...
...bread made from bleached flour. "What had been the staff of life for countless ages," said Beecher, "had become a weak crutch." Bad morals went with a bad diet, according to Mrs. Horace Mann, who in 1861 published her cookbook Christianity in the Kitchen. A fruitful wedding of faith, faddism and free enterprise was not long in coming. As early as 1866, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, manager of a Battle Creek sanatorium, was prescribing generous doses of bran, which he claimed "does not irritate. It titillates." Kellogg and his family went on to make it big in cornflakes, while...