Word: shibboleth
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...personal damage is still done, as is well indicated by the attacks upon public figures by irresponsible individuals in Washington. It must be quite apparent to the CRIMSON that it has become party, innocently or otherwise, to the mud-slinging attack instigated by thoughtless members of the community; a shibboleth joyously taken up by other individuals whose only contribution to Harvard is constant, vicious, destructive criticism of the worst kind. If Wrenn is at all interested in the constructive work of the Council we refer him to page one, column three of the CRIMSON in which his letter appears. There...
...central theme of this essay, as of several of the smaller ones, is the struggle of men to remain more than mere cogs in an impersonal, institutional machine. The "right to a private existence, unconditioned by history and society," is Mr. Huxley's shibboleth, the one he propounded so effectively in "Brave New World...
...public opinion to the danger that threatens religious liberty as guaranteed by the separation of church and state . . . In a recent public pronouncement issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference and signed by American cardinals, archbishops and bishops, the hierarchy brands the separation of church and state a 'shibboleth of doctrinaire secularists' and serves notice that it intends 'peaceably, patiently and perseveringly' to effect a radical change in this American tradition and in the law which supports...
...could skid up to high F on the other, so that he could spread the chords. His music was carefully arranged except for solos. The Duke says "being able to repeat your solo is to me a virtue," a clear violation of the jazz fancier's shibboleth that only the improvised is inspired...
...have the faith to transfer the policing of the world from unilateral power politics to the United Nations under a system of world law, our political "leaders" are re-enacting the role of Samson in the temple of the Philistines by perpetuating the insane anarchy of war, muttering the shibboleth of "national sovereignty...