Word: ism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton, Reporter Griffin found that the dangerous "ism" was Anglicism. His proof: Princeton had sent more Rhodes scholars (72) to Oxford than either Harvard (51) or Yale...
Harlow Shapley, Harvard's left-leaning astronomer, reported his discovery of an "ism" that he considers more dangerous than communism, fascism or any other: somnambulism-"seeming to be awake but actually...
...Marin is a flowing-haired nature-lover who has no interest in transcribing nature, and a modern artist who finds himself "completely unsympathetic with cubism or other forms of abstraction, or with surrealism. I belong to no ism. I haven't the time. Shakespeare belonged to no ism." When a reporter cornered the old, thin man at the opening of his Boston show to ask who were his favorite painters, wry, shy John Marin had his answer ready: "Myself...
Died. Colonel François de la Rocque, 53, founder and fiihrer of the fascistic Croix de Feu party which periodically harassed French governments of the '30s; after an operation; in Paris. He inveighed against "rotten parliamentarian-ism," boldly announced his intention to "seize power," but opposed the Nazis...
Roughneck in Paris. According to Benton, Paris had meant merely "a girl friend to take care of you and run you-a lot of talk and an escape into a world of pretense and theory." Two-fisted Tom had "wallowed in every cockeyed ism that came along, and it took me ten years to get all that modernist dirt out of my system. I was merely a roughneck with a talent for fighting, perhaps, but not for painting." His muscle-bound expressionist Three Figures, which the Whitney exhibited without comment, proved his words...