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Politically, Joe McCarthy this week was indeed on the sick list. One of the clearest indications came out of Los Angeles, where the American Federation of Labor was holding its annual convention. In contrast to other A.F.L. conventions since McCarthy became an "ism," there was hardly any discussion of McCarthy or McCarthyism. Said a delegate from Chicago: "McCarthy is dead. Why should we bother kicking the corpse...
...manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually, the anti-UNESCO chorus grew to such volume that Stoddard was forced to withdraw the manual...
...Somehow, with the decline of big-name bands, Sinatra's type of tune seemed to drop out too. In 1942 Sinatra signed with Columbia Records, whose artist and repertory chief is bearded Mitch Miller (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953). Says Frankie: "Came the age of Miller-ism. Mind you, I'll admit he's a great musician, but I can't go along with him. Instead of a real interest in the lyrics or the melody, all Miller cared about was gimmicks. One day he said to me: 'Frank, we're going to make...
...them as "penance," protesting only when some really flagrant state violation of their rights as Christians occurs. As for ideology: "The Church can never defend and proclaim-or even attack-abstract norms, ideals, historical laws and sociopolitical ideologies as such ... It cannot make itself responsible either for any ism or for rejecting...
...Third Way. Rosenzweig's Judaism did not lead him to orthodoxy any more than to philosophic liberalism. The Jew, wrote Rosenzweig, must free himself from "recipes . . . those stupid claims that would impose Juda-'ism' on him as a canon of definite, circumscribed 'Jewish duties' [i.e., orthodoxy as he saw it], or 'Jewish tasks' [Zionism as he saw it], or 'Jewish ideas' [liberalism] . . . There is one recipe alone that can make a person Jewish and hence, because he is a Jew and destined to a Jewish life-a full human being; that...