Word: ism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation of the '205 was devoutly iconoclastic. It put on (in the words of T. S. Eliot) "the black cap of jem'en joutisme"-of I-don't-give-a-damn-ism. It discovered with a mixture of horror and delight that it was living in a brand-new age, the 20th Century, and it decided to burn all the old cultural furniture. This huge fire, while it caused incalculable damage, cast a sharp, new light across U.S. civilization-and encouraged the younger generation of that day to do a whooping war dance around it. Gertrude Stein...
Roosevelt sent the CRIMSON what he described as "a smashing letter...saying a word for Patriotism and American ism ... to save Harvard from degradation...
...great U.S. public, which had so happily sponsored perpetual motion, Couéism, beauty mud, monkey glands and the double-knobbed electric revitalizer (with storage batteries), was off again. It has developed a fevered interest in almost anything that promises to forestall atomic disintegration. Last week the Civil Defense Administration was having about as much trouble with pamphleteers and crackpot inventors as with the problems of preparing for the Big Bang...
...Prepare for War. This was not isolationism, Taft said, nor was that the label for Hoover's doctrine of Gibraltar-ism (TIME, Jan. 1). "It seems to me that our battle against Communism is in fact a worldwide battle and must be fought on the world stage . . . [but] our first consideration must be defense of America." Here is how he would wage the battle...
...enough to call Perón a Caudillo, Big Brother, Duce or Führer; these terms have a worldly connotation, and since he has achieved heavenly status without the necessity of dying, it is better to dub him saint. But in another sense, Saint-Peron-ism is the political version of Superman. Even as the followers of Superman trust in his extraordinary talents, so do the shirtless worshipers of Saint Perón believe in his special powers-divine, atomic...