Word: res
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Resistentialism is a philosophy of tragic grandeur. It is difficult to give an account of it in textbook English after hearing Ventre's witty aphorisms, but I will try. Resistentialism derives its name from its central thesis that Things (res) resist (résister) men . . . Pre-atomic philosophies . . . were concerned merely with what men think about Things. Now, Resistentialism is the philosophy of what Things think about...
Last fortnight, the Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Monsignor Georges Léon Pelletier, let it be known that he viewed such talk with alarm. In a letter to the city council he came out against mixed bathing, warned that "promiscuity of the sexes in scanty costume [is] a menace to chastity and purity." The council took up the question and split four and four. Mayor J. Arthur Rousseau, who had toured Canadian swimming pools and been shocked at what he saw, announced that he stood with the bishop. Then everybody got into the argument...
Last week the Trois-Rivières Junior Chamber of Commerce denounced the ban on mixed bathing. Le Nouvelliste, ardent supporter of the church, assailed "the thoughtlessness of demoniac youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied to the bishop, ignored the fact that when the Archbishop of Quebec, Monsignor Maurice Roy, was Bishop of Trois-Rivières, he held that mixed bathing was none of the church's business...
...face of all the pious opposition, the Trois-Rivières aldermen decided that maybe the old by-law had better be enforced. That meant that, whatever their bathing costumes, boys & girls, men & wives, would swim alone-or else...
...Barbara Ann Scott, one "P.B.," writing in the obscure Le Bonheur of Trois Rivières, Que., had kind words: "I am ready to believe that this young girl is a model of virtue, modesty, discretion and grace." But for Barbara Ann's clothes and capers, and for figure-skating in general, fuddy-duddy "P.B." had only scorn. Last week L'Action Catholique, official mouthpiece of Quebec's Roman Catholic archdiocese, picked up his words, gave them wide (circ. 83,000) circulation...