Word: ism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them as "penance," protesting only when some really flagrant state violation of their rights as Christians occurs. As for ideology: "The Church can never defend and proclaim-or even attack-abstract norms, ideals, historical laws and sociopolitical ideologies as such ... It cannot make itself responsible either for any ism or for rejecting...
...Third Way. Rosenzweig's Judaism did not lead him to orthodoxy any more than to philosophic liberalism. The Jew, wrote Rosenzweig, must free himself from "recipes . . . those stupid claims that would impose Juda-'ism' on him as a canon of definite, circumscribed 'Jewish duties' [i.e., orthodoxy as he saw it], or 'Jewish tasks' [Zionism as he saw it], or 'Jewish ideas' [liberalism] . . . There is one recipe alone that can make a person Jewish and hence, because he is a Jew and destined to a Jewish life-a full human being; that...
...Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the week began about like any other week since McCarthy became an ism. There was an accusation here and a headline there, intermittent spatters of mud and an occasional old tomato. Hardly anyone heard the ominous creaking around the eaves of the house of McCarthyism. Then the roof fell...
...would be a matter of history by the next election. The issues, he thought, would be determined by what his Administration did to meet the needs of the country, and those needs included cleaning out the Government. When a reporter asked whether he thought his Administration had "embraced McCarthy-ism," as Harry Truman had charged, Eisenhower reddened, then said he was willing to take the judgment of the Washington press corps on whether Truman's statement was true (see PRESS...
...British would like to see better . . . You are not going to get us involved in a war between the two groups of homicidal maniacs in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. A plague on both your houses! The idiotic idea you have over there that you can kill an "ism" by bullets or atom bombs is so moronic that you certainly had better figure on "going it alone...