Word: ism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court does change with the political climate. When Earl Warren stepped up to the nation's highest bench, Stalinist aggression had produced a violent, often excessive U.S. reaction, most sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld security laws on the implied Holmesian basis of "clear and present danger." By comparison, Earl Warren's court has moved with drastic speed toward the implied concept of very little danger...
From Brookline to Brooklyn, St. Louis to Dallas, in every college in the nation, the five years from eighteen to twenty-three have become a humorless, superficially serious time. Non-conformity itself has become indeed, for some, a conscious goal. But Bohemianism has evolved into a true "ism," with its established rules and procedures. And eccentricity, on longer loved for its very absurdity, is occasionally cultivated because, for some, it has become a standard value. Like liberalism, which has become a dull and dusty set of bromides after being handed down over two centuries, non-conformity itself is becoming...
...mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line into an "Ernie-ism" ("I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs"), drive home a folksy Ford (Motor Co.) commercial, or tug tears with a lugubrious, deep-voiced version of The Lord's Prayer. "I'm not strictly country...
...highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside a huge Cardinal Wyszynski. Now it was time for a reckoning. But instead of rushing to make the changes demanded...
...Whose Ism...