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There is great rejoicing these days among liberals who say that the storm centering around Senator McCarthy has at last blown itself out to sea, or at least out of the newspapers. The "ism," they claim, has become a "wasm," and only time and a little effort are needed to clear away the debris. This attitude, appealing as it may be, underestimates the damage wreaked in the last few years--damage that cannot be repaired so long as legislative supports for hysteria remain unexamined, in the statute books...
...there been a growth or degeneration of "wheel-ism" on your campus...
...Prayer-Ism: The shocking heresy that, in moments of acute stress and danger, one wee prayer is permissible. This may be attributed, later, to behaviouristic reflex responses...
...government has begun a drive against such corruption in Tuscany (80% of whose towns are Red-governed). By last week 56 mayors and local administrators had been put in jail. Not all were Communists, but most were. "McCarthy-ism," cried the Communist L'Unità, in incoherent rage. The campaign had a double effect: it hurt the Communist treasury and exposed the Communist moral...
...bare hotel room and at noon would chew half a sausage, or a fish; each evening, a picturesque and mannerly Asian intellectual, he had access to the clubs. With scholars, artists and future Cabinet ministers, Ho would contemplate and debate astronomy and hypnotism; he argued against Couéism ("Every day in every way I'm getting better and better") with Coué; but somehow, most nights the debate would zigzag back to Ho's one gnawing pang: Indo-China. "I am a revolutionary," Ho would explain...