Word: ism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were confiscated at Harvard two weeks ago, "The New York Times" stated triumphantly that authorities were beginning a quiet and efficient drive against "red" groups in the University. The story turned out to be almost completely false. Just a few days later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...
...function made necessary by conditions under which we live a progress that has gone on for generations." Change comes about when these reforms fit into the social structure. Many of the "radical" measures of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public ownership of railroads and coal mines, which was downright mutiny in 1890, has gradually come into popular favor. Hays predicts that "more and more the income of the citizen...
Probably the most interesting question the Survey has thus far put to students is the "ism" problem. On this issue fifty-six per cent voted a preference for Communism over Fascism. The result of this poll may have tremendous repercussions. For, if the new generation maintains its bias toward the extreme. Left, red-baiting will rapidly lose its place as the premier American political sport. Instead of trying to locate the root of all evil in Moscow, the Dies Committees of the future will have to orient their accusing fingers to Berlin or Rome. The "red menace" will become...
...writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University. Coolest-headed of Southern agrarian writers, Author Warren declares "the danger of regionalism lies in the 'ism.' Meaningless as a fad, it is not a cureall, and gives the writer no substitute for talent or intelligence...
...weekend. The newest publication is entitled "College Years," of which the editor is Richard W. Weissman '38, and the Harvard editorial associate Malcolm E. Jenna '40. Articles on Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, and several girls' colleges are interspersed with features about the youth movements and general phases of collegiate-ism. Grover Whalen, Aubrey Williams, and Brown president Henry Wriston are the leading authors...