Word: fogeyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money having become the paramount issue, it must be startling to sound-money Democrats like Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator...
...these statements, and similar Cortissoz writings, reveal an esthetic clearheadedness, a critical sanity quite unusual in a day when loose-thinking esthetes customarily employ such meaningless terms as "realities" and "eternal," choose the most nebulous polysyllables to describe their obscure aims. Modernists, of course, vilify Royal Cortissoz as a fogey if not, indeed, a fool. From them he receives the same stigma of petrifaction which they apply to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME...