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...Certainly, says Barzun, the intellectual has little cause to complain: never before has he had quite such a variety of backers-"the museums of modern art, the foundation patronage, the universities eager to be baffled, and the leagues of women armed with print to defend this or that 'ism.' " "There is room in America," adds Philosopher T. V. Smith, "for all kinds of intelligence and for rewards befitting each kind. But those who sit on the Left Bank and howl at the Right neither facilitate the flow of the river nor adorn their own bank as the river...
...Adlai Stevenson, attacking what he called the Republican slogan of "peace, prosperity and progress," tried a Truman-ism for size: "What peace? Our peace seems to consist of a balance of terror in the world." Stevenson was appalled by the world around him. "NATO has never been so weak ... We have no policy in the Middle East." He quoted Eisenhower as saying at the time of his second-term announcement that some of the presidential work "can now be done by my close associates as well as by myself." Said Adlai: "I could not help but think of that little...
...political theorist or a thinker, trying to analyze and interpret a new movement, "ism" or secular trend like Communism, Fascism, Nazism, National Socialism or the New Deal, cannot do a satisfactory job if he has to denounce all the time what he is trying to explain, in order to protect himself against the charge of being a champion of all the evils of what he is writing or talking about. If, in the light of hindsight, I had to do it all over again, I probably would decide not to write and speak about Fascism as I did. I would...
...address to the 20th Congress, Khrushchev attributed the Yugoslav Communist breakaway to the paranoic Stalin's attitude towards Tito, and in Czechoslovakia a Soviet commission was reported to be looking into the case of Rudolf Slansky and 13 Communist comrades, most of them executed in 1952 for "Tito-ism." This suggested that a whole series of "Titoist" purges in the satellite countries (e.g., Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, Hungary's Laszlo Rajk, Rumania's Ana Pauker, Albania's Koci Xoxe) might be reopened. It was given out in Moscow that the last victims...
...have come to doubt our doubts." The most overshadowing reason for this is "the threat of nothingness" brought on by the atomic bomb. Adds William D. Geoghegan, assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College: "The resurgence oi religion is largely due to the shock administered to cultural Couéism by two world wars, a depression, and the painful knowledge that the great powers possess the awesome tools of genocide. Religion is seen as an essential tool in the hard work of sheer survival, not as a matter of icing on the cake...