Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the political battles of half a century, the rallying cry of Britain's Labor Party has been the Marxist ideal of "social ownership of the means of production." Last week in Towards Equality, a slim, 31-page pamphlet prepared under the personal supervision of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, Labor sharply and radically changed its tune...
Money is much loved in New Thought. The Rev. Raymond Charles Barker offered a pamphlet titled Money Is God in Action; "Achieving Financial Freedom" was the subject of a panel discussion. Dr. Paul Martin Brunei of the Science of Mind discoursed on "Money Talks." Circulate your money freely, he said. "You will find more and more come into your experience. Make it a rule in your lives: 'I am always where there is plenty of money.' " New Thoughters "want happy, vibrant, abundant money...
...delegate remarked to the woman tending the pamphlet counter that her husband didn't go for New Thought. "A lot of them don't," said the saleslady sympathetically. She fingered a stack of paper slips, looped together with ribbon and proclaiming: "I reject all negative thoughts from others. They may return to those who sent them. I am positive, positive, positive. Divine force is manifest in me. I am positive, positive, positive...
...recent years travelers on tourist ships bound for Europe have been hard put to escape reading a small pamphlet put out by our State Department. The booklet tells the tourist that everywhere he goes on the Continent he will be regarded as an emissary of this country, "an unofficial ambassador" as they say. While designed to make the tourist's stay a pleasanter one, the pamphlet tends to creat moody paranoids out of harmless school-teachers and graduates of progressive high schools. Feeling that the results of the Geneva Conference may be undone by a single misunderstanding, they tiptoe through...
...poet he was, but a public one. In politics he ran a banner-waving, pamphlet-strewn, populace-stirring course-monarchist, Bonapartist, finally a rebel and exile who came to be called "Grandfather of the Republic." "It is ill praise to give a man that his politics have never changed for 40 years," he explained. "That is no more than to praise water for being stagnant, a tree for being dead...