Word: ism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt took the trouble to prepare for the press a written castigation of the Senate "Ism" Committee, he did more than add to his long list of shattered precedents: he crystallized for informed public opinion an important problem in governmental practice. Theoretically, the Dies Committee has been investigating un-American activity, and it was given a Senate appropriation for that purpose; actually what has happened is that the United States Senate has been used as a soap box from which to propagate political twaddle...
...privilege, extended to teachers like Dean Landis and to Granville Hicks as a historian, is worth a great deal of ignorant and temporary malignment. But complete political freedom for its teachers is becoming increasingly embarrassing for this University, which must thus smile condoningly on all doctrines--no matter what "ism" is represented. After the lesson in public relations it has been taught in the last few weeks, Harvard might now find it expedient to demand some greater measure of tact, timeliness, and sober consideration from its representatives in political matters. It is not a gag which is necessary...
Young Dr. Kennedy has set himself the job of exploding the claims of Duke University's Joseph Banks Rhine, inventor of the card-guessing experiments which he claims prove Extra-Sensory Perception ("ESP"), a Rhine-ism for telepathy and clairvoyance. Last week, Dr. Kennedy reported an ingenious series of counter-experiments which many of Rhine's many critics will regard as the final nail in ESP's coffin...
...years pondering it without reaching a unanimous conclusion. The Japanese Supreme Court has ruled that Shrine Shintoism is a religion. On the other hand the Government, while showing partiality toward it. has tried to pass it off as a form of politeness to departed heroes, like D. A. R.-ism in the U. S. Christianity has 300,000 followers in Japan. Last week U. S. Presbyterians, precisely like the Japanese, were arguing over whether Shintoism is a religion. Reason: If it is a faith, U. S. missionaries in Korea have been guilty of the equivalent of worshiping false gods...
...Lougee is young (Andover 1932) and quite sincere. He declares that he doesn't follow any particular "ism" of art; rather does he try to utilize all of them in his creations. He uses a now technique which he calls his monograph medium on some of his pictures. On others he uses the air-brush, brought into the public eye by George Petty of "Esquire" fame. These techniques combined with a now method of employing pastel colors produce amassingly well-excented sketches...