Word: marxianity
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...profit-yielding scarcity. Changing those institutions by consent instead of violence is possible when men's minds are accustomed to great transformations, but will be infinitely more difficult when post-war inertia and fatigue set in. This analysis of the conservative mind exemplifies magnificently the value of the Marxian approach when it is applied coolly rather than with emotionally supercharged hysteria...
...window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius; the Harold-Teenish manager of a drugstore; a crafty reporter (Allyn Joslyn); six lighthearted cadets from the Portuguese merchant marine. Eileen's global charms inspire the sailors to do a mass conga that lands her in jail. At last Sister Ruth's stories...
Died. Rev. Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel, 73, vicar of Thaxted, England, whose crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...
...about 500 pages on, in a long, catastrophic chapter, the whole machine flies apart, giving off humanistic, neo-christian, marxian, capitalistic and fascist sparks which generate great excitement, but not the terrifying image of man-at-the-edge-of-doom which was intended...
...proceedings when he stated that the freedom of the author to write, independently, of life as he sees it should be paramount to social commentary or patriotic propaganda. This point of view was strengthened by Robert Davis's autobiographical criticisms of the limiting effect of the twentieth century Marxian criticism, which held all literature up to a specialized social theory...