Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pygmy menace that it is difficult to rise to Jovian levels of condemnation. In his speech last night, for instance, which was sponsored by the Free Enterprise Society, a number of remarks proved him beyond doubt to be an anti-semite. To most people it is something of a truism to say that anti-semitism is evil--so much of a truism, in fact, that when a man stands on a chair and shouts "I hate Jews," it is better to ignore him and to concentrate criticism on shrewder, more careful anti-semites. Hart did not declare that he hated...
...Radio Doctor enjoys high standing in his profession; a B.M.A. colleague admits that no physician in the country has done more for preventive medicine than Dr. Hill and his avuncular broadcasts. Dr. Hill himself has a simple explanation for his huge popularity: his talks are based on the solid truism that people are more interested in disease than in health. Says he: "If I want to discuss the circulation, I start by mentioning varicose veins. I know then that I'll have the sympathetic ear of most...
...become almost a truism that the fattest U.S. publishers' prizes go to poor novels. Resting firmly in this tradition, Black Fountains has won its author $20,000 and the publicity tub-thumping that is sure to go with it. The business, if not the literary, reasons for its selection seem fairly obvious. It is an "inside" novel about Japan from 1938 to 1945, and it has a Japanese heroine who is both "modern" and curvy...
Herself a product of progressive education, 58-year-old Director Taylor wants Shady Hill to be known as just a "good school" rather than a progressive one. She stresses the classics, teaches the three Rs, allows no classroom anarchy. But her theory is a progressive truism: "When learning becomes a drudgery, it usually ceases to be productive...
Like many a mere man, James Madison Wood likes to say that a woman is a woman. What makes his truism noteworthy is his insistence on applying it to women's education. After all, says he, 72% of all women ultimately marry. As president of Missouri's Stephens College (for women), Dr. Wood has trained 2,000 young women in the arts & sciences of wifehood, motherhood and homemaking. Even the college's psychology, literature and economics courses are, as he says, "geared . . . to its homemaking objective." He seems to be on the right track, for at last...