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...Jones' undertow is a hard-to-map third stream in American Protestant ism, running midway between the simplistic fundamentalism of small Christian sects, and the sophisticated faith espoused by a majority of the nation's best-known theologians and denominational leaders. It is best known as evangelical conservatism, and it stands for a strictly orthodox Protestant faith that summons scholarship to the defense of traditional Reformation doctrine...
Merely a Monster. Wagner is, indeed, the only composer in history whose work amounts to an authentic ism; no one ever speaks of "Bachism" or "Mozartism," but Wagnerism has emerged as a way of life more than once, usually with unfortunate results. Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria, was an ardent disciple, but Wagner's most disastrous convert was Hitler, who said that an understanding of Nazi Germany required an understanding of Wagner. Hitler became a vegetarian in imitation of Wagner and liked to think that his SS embodied the spirit of Parsifal's Knights...
...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...