Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mona is the Government's No. expert on letters. Her pamphlet on style, her precooked form paragraphs, and her mail-room short cuts are standard in many Government offices. Her nix-list of 150 avoidable words and phrases is well known to Washington letter writers. Samples: Held in abeyance (wait is better), at the earliest possible moment ("this may be the moment the letter arrives"), finalize, (a "manufactured" word), in the near future ("say soon"), attached please find ("attached is is adequate...
...Like socialism. "I dedicated this volume to my friends of the Harvard Class of 1924," Lamont says, "but have yet to hear that I made any converts among them." But he sees his own brand of socialism as being widely different from Communism. In fact, he has published a pamphlet listing 53 reasons "Why I am not a Communist." His own program Lamont describes as "socialism in economics, democracy in politics, and Humanism in philosophy." Elected as a Director of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1932, he was arrested two years later for picketing factories on strike. Nonetheless, some...
...Will Suffer." Last week, in the villages and towns of the Pyrenees a pamphlet by Dubois was passing rapidly and secretly from hand to hand. Titled simply Excommunication, it presents the heretic's side of the story. Sample quote: "To leave the Roman Church is not to put one's faith in another institution but rather to put one's faith in no institution whatever...
...year's end there was evidence that Missionary Dulles was making some converts where conversion was difficult. In Paris, a French foreign office official told a TIME correspondent: "You know, the other day a pamphlet came across my desk. Written in French, it was entitled Pour la Paix. My first reaction was that it was just another Communist propaganda tract. But it wasn't. It was John Foster Dulles' recent speech in Chicago...
...papers first picked up the Archbishop's answer in an Anglican pamphlet called The Church and Marriage. "It is the law which has made a single act of adultery a ground for divorce, not the church," he said. "The church would wholly approve if the law was no longer content to accept a single act of adultery as a sufficient ground." Other British prelates have gone on record in the same vein lately. Unfaithfulness, said the Archbishop of York, "should never be treated as the one unforgivable sin," and Bishop J.W.C. Wand of London said in a sermon...