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...title and its challenge Author Armstrong accepts from a speech of Mussolini's (1930): "The struggle between two worlds [democracy and fascism] can permit no compromise. . . . Either we or they!" To this ugly Duce-ism. Editor Armstrong soberly agrees, resoundingly replies with a statement of the American position which no American has yet so well expressed...
...Panacea Sirs: Thanks to TIME for the most concisely complete account of the coming of unicameralism in Nebraska. One small point of error: TIME accented too strongly the novelty of unicameralism in the U. S. A century ago most of our larger cities turned from unicameralism to bicameral-ism; during the past 60 years virtually all have returned to the original unicameral council. To foresee the results of unicameralism in State government we need only consult the experience of our large cities, many of them more populous than a majority of the States. The record shows that unicameralism...
...wings, strange trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered behind all this a newer and better ism. In the autumn of 1924 he wrote his Manifesto of Surrealism, and a word and a school were born.* Excerpt: "Surrealism rests in the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of association neglected heretofore ; in the omnipotence of the dream and in the disinterested play of thought...
...parties. Here and now, once and for all, let us bury that red herring and destroy that false issue. . . . I have not sought, I do not seek, I repudiate the support of any advocate of Communism or of any other alien, and that goes for any other alien 'ism,' which would by fair means or foul change our American democracy...
...have already given Buchman and his "ism" too much space in relation to her importance...