Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the Globe and Mail columnist in an appropriate final word: "Spare us any more of these symbols which evoke . . . religious bigotry, boll-weevil decadence and depraved mumbo jumbo...
...pledge of allegiance is of course simply mumbo jumbo (a relic of Feudal days, when a pledge was supposed to have some magic in it) which can be of no use in this connection; for it would not make out of the disloyal teacher a patriot, nor is it necessary in order to take such a teacher to book when he does violate the constitution. It is simply a waste of effort, time and money, aside from causing friction and consuming energy needed in productive work...
...positivist like Comte! At the very least he got off the ground floor with his classification of thought into theological, metaphysical and positivist levels. TIME, still in the dark basement with a lot of other theologians, is trying to translate knowledge of the real world into dualistic mumbo jumbo. The most you can accomplish that way is to produce a few pages of high-sounding argument without once having to refer to reality . . . Come on, TIME, dig the culture concept and a little bit of scientific method if you want to play in the intellectual big leagues. You and Reinhold...
...delivered a slugging political speech before a shouting, stomping crowd of 12,000 in the memorial auditorium. "In our party," cried the governor, "the presidential candidate doesn't go around the country endorsing candidates who violate the fundamental decencies . . ." Excoriating the "do-nothing, care-nothing, know-nothing mumbo jumbo" of the Republican Old Guard, Stevenson hammered away at one of his major campaign themes: "It is a tragedy that the Old Guard has succeeded in doing what Hitler's best generals never could do: they have captured General Eisenhower...
Sometimes the texts invoked charms and magic, sometimes mumbo-jumbo ("Mti, Mti, Mti, Mti . . ."), sometimes sheer bravado ("Heaven thunders, the earth trembles before [the king] . . ."). But they also pleaded good works on behalf of the Pharaoh ("I gave bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, I ferried him who had no boat...