Word: materialistic
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...road back to the right." Thus far the Freeman's pull has been hard, but uneven. The magazine has pointed out why the Administration's weak foreign policy has failed more often than it has succeeded, has relentlessly fought Communism, and every form of statism, inveighed against materialist influences in U.S. courts and education. Among its noteworthy articles: one by Ohio's Senator John Bricker pointing out that the U.N.'s Covenant of Human Rights was full of traps for the West, and a widely reprinted piece by George Schuyler, an editor of the Negro Pittsburgh...
...fancy-dress costumes school kids may wear during Fasching, the month-long Teutonic version of Mardi Gras. There must be no Red Indian and Negro minstrel costumes: "These are suppressed peoples whose fight for freedom would not be supported by such masquerades." Also verboten: cowboy outfits, which represent "materialist and imperialist tendencies." Recommended substitutes: "costumes of freedom-loving and progressive peoples like the Chinese, Bulgarians and Hungarians...
...outstanding service in church and government, spoke out against one of the weaknesses of world government. At the Newman Club Federation convention in Wentworth-by-the-sea, N. H., she said: "The United Nations offers a tragic example of the frustration to which the most idealistic efforts of materialist man is doomed. The U.N. is a failure, not because unity among nations is undesirable or impossible. It is a failure because the spiritual conditions of unity are not present...
Without this sense of contingency, "there isn't any springboard for theistic metaphysics * ...After all, how would one expect [traditional metaphysics] to soften up a monolithic materialist like H. G. Wells, or an anti-humanist like Picasso, or a happy naturalist like British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle...
Charisma, the heroine, wanted to get routinized and find a husband (Beowulf). The puzzled Durkheim kept running from the idealist to the Materialist polo muttering, "Oh, God. I mean, Oh, society." Weber, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Grendel's Mother also rushed about the stage spouting garbled political theories. They blew horns, ate bananas, and emerged from a trap door...