Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The teacher is indifferent to poetry. "This teacher is every bit as dangerous, because he has nothing at all to restrain him. ... He makes poetry yield dividends. He gives marks for it. He asks his pupils to paraphrase it. ... Ask anyone to paraphrase a poem and . . . you suggest that a...
Democracy gives the people more power than they want to exercise directly. In the U.S., this surplus power normally falls into the hands of bosses who may be morally good, bad or indifferent; what they have in common is a fulltime love of power.
Some of the State's representatives are kind and well meaning, but they are hardly more helpful than the brutes, the prigs, the fools and the merely indifferent. The boys are locked in separate cells and come under new influences. Pasquale is tricked into informing; neither boy ever quite...
The movie leans over backward to be fair to the industry, which insists on making such an indifferent case for itself. Such debatable blessings as America's Town Meeting of the Air and the scripting efforts of Norman Corwin are duly acknowledged, a fair proof of the old saw...
"A good cover should not only help sell the magazine but also reflect its character. Therefore, in the same sense that TIME tries to bring out the true significance of world events in terms of personalities through its use of complete news coverage, it should be my job to bring...