Word: ism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most notable of last week's surrealist shows was that of 51-year-old, white-haired German-born Max Ernst, who joined the ism 18 years ago, and has since become its master technician and high priest. Surrealist Ernst depicted a rock-candy fairyland peopled with crawling monsters and dismembered nudes in feathery fur coats...
Sons o' Fun is a Hellzapop,pin that has stopped sleeping in its underwear: a trifle more class, a trifle less roughhouse. It won't make any new converts to heathen ism, but there should be no backsliders from the enormous ranks of the faithful...
When Leo wrote in 1891 the great enemy was Socialism; when Pius wrote in 1931 it was Communism; in 1941 it is Naziism-and the Catholic Church seems well aware that some ism or other will always tempt working people away from the creed of Christ the Carpenter unless Christianity has a better message for them. Said the late famed British Monsignor William Francis Barry...
About 1870, artists began retreating from realism. With every fresh retreat they dug themselves a new redoubt, hoisted a flag and proclaimed a new ism. Impressionism and neoImpressionism held that artists should paint with prismatic colors, imitating the effect of light. Synthetism held that they should not. Fauvism held that artists should paint flat, abstract decorations; Cubism, that the subject should be broken up into planes. Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism...
...will be remembered that the original draft proposal of President Roosevelt included the registration of all Americans above the age of sixteen and a plan of camps for them, because, according to the New York Times. "He was dissatisfied with the infiltration of all on 'Ism' in the minds of youth and felt the need for disciplining them and instilling true American patriotism." This plan however was seen dropped as "too drastic" but has since reappeared...