Word: ism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) In the folklore of American capital ism, the rich boy sometimes seems to have less chance of success than the poor boy. Americans build fortunes, but sel dom dynasties. And enough fortunes have been wasted away by the sons of rich men to give truth to the saying: "From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three gen erations." No one had a better chance to make this saying come true again than the Ford brothers, Henry, Benson and William, grandsons of the unpredictable, profound ly radical genius who began the age of mass production and created a billion-dollar empire...
...divinity to condemnation of Christian hypocrisy. The essay topic is effective in bringing out indiotmens gods rule the campus. But I wonder whether it doesn't skirt the attitude towards religion most common among college students simply that of apathy. I think most students have surrendered less to an ism critical of Faith than to a vague or abstract interest in religion hard to distinguish from disinterest...
...ism." "Creeping Social 5. Truman's labor policy. 3. At Philadelphia Ike re-emphasized the peaceful intent of his promise, made at Madison Square Garden...
...calmly decided, as he said, to "swallow" his time and spit it out again in a series of 20 long novels about the Rougon-Macquart, in which all the main characters were the legitimate and illegitimate descendants of one oversexed farm wench. For his series he invented a new ism, based on close, pessimistic observation of mankind, and called it Naturalism. But Zola no more believed in Naturalism than he did in God, Wilson concludes. The important thing was this: "I, I alone will be Naturalism...
Thus, the list of isms has swelled by one more, and to Communism, Socialism, McCarthyism, Neutralism, Liberalism, Hooverism, Syndicalism, Pacifism, Militarism, and so on must be added another, McGeorge Bundyism. Soon there may be no belief, attitude, or mode of expression that has not been fliply disposed of by its classification as an ism. Perhaps a similar fate may befall even that last outpost of good sense, the Saturday Evening Post itself...