Word: ism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should rule the majority of the people." Said California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike: "The result of the decision is not neutrality but an imposition upon the public school system of a particular perspective on reality, namely, secularism by default, which is as much an 'ism' as any other...
Anti-lntellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter. Anti-intellectual-ism, argues Hofstadter, is part and parcel of democracy, and he demonstrates the point with lively discourses on famous anti-intellectual mavericks and movements...
...governments in Latin America. The report last week of an Organization of American States committee on Communist subversion left no question about it. "The emphasis that the Castro regime puts on the use of violence to overthrow constituted governments," said the report, "together with the recent outbreaks of terror ism, sabotage and other kinds of subversive activity in various American republics, requires that the governments and the OAS intensify their vigilance...
...constructor, and he spent decades trying to win it. The current exhibition of his paintings at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery shows that his very genius-his gifts of invention and humor-barred him from be coming an artist of serious value. Over the years, Ray adopted whatever ism was the going one at the time, adding to each a fast-growing repertory of stock techniques: the placement of the curious (whether an object, texture or color) next to the ordinary, the abrupt disordering of space, an almost mannerist play of light. He jumped like a child at hopscotch...
Ultimately, of course, the violence of the Reich (its anti-semitism, its insane Odin-ism, its rigidly-controlled economic life are all "violent" in this sense) found its foreign policy equivalent in a war against the whole world. But Taylor rightly treats the period prior to 1939 in terms appropriate to diplomatic history...