Word: ism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philip Snowden, onetime Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, sar donic cripple, brilliant economist (TIME, April 25) : "They who have proposed this bill are hypocrites, and they are fools who by rowdy ism have led this debate to such a fatuous conclusion. . . . As for general strikes, they are general nonsense because they
...very charming gentleman. Those fortunate enough to have attended either of his courses or his series or public lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind the mists that swirl about the human mind. Any lingering doubt as to the brightness of the so called "dark ages" in the minds of his hearers was completely, dispelled. As Professor Gilson often points...
...political creed is that of Liberal ism, and throughout his stay at Cambridge he has been one of the chief supporters of the Liberal Party there and has often contribute articles on Liberalism to the University journals. His interests however do not remain within Cambridge. He is as much sought as a popular speaker on Liberal Party platforms both a his home and in the East End on London and also in many other parts of the country. His reputation as a speaker in the Cambridge Union has led many prominent men including members of Parliament to enlist his eloquent...
...order while we were a young, struggling nation, have not only not been able to keep our leadership, we have ceased for a time even to follow. To save our position among the states of the world, we must at least support the new Court. It is not altru- ism that I counsel. It is not helping Europe. It is not sacrifice for the general good. It is selfishness for America. It is our own national self-respect...
This American counterpart of Expressionism--or whatever other ism you want to call it--is of course a part of the whole Revolt from Realism which has taken so many different forms as we have emerged from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century. At first it was only in the dramatic representation of dreams within the plays that our dramatists dared to present that fanciful and fantastic caricature of American life which we find for example in the dream scenes of "The Beggar on Horseback" or "The Crime in the Whistler Room". But in "Processional" and "The Moon...