Word: -ism
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...Communist Council of Arts sternly observed that Hungarian popular music has become "decadent," lacking in the "dynamic rhythm of the new democracy." They express a maudlin desire to return to the "good old days." As an example of the kind of song that was out of tune with Marx ism, the council cited the following ballad...
...John L. it was a demonstration that the coal industry can and should take care of its injured and aged. Said he: "We are setting up America's best insurance policy against Communism or any other kind of 'ism' and against those who believe that it is the function of the State to regulate completely the lives of all men who are citizens of that State...
...Princeton, Reporter Griffin found that the dangerous "ism" was Anglicism. His proof: Princeton had sent more Rhodes scholars (72) to Oxford than either Harvard (51) or Yale...
Harlow Shapley, Harvard's left-leaning astronomer, reported his discovery of an "ism" that he considers more dangerous than communism, fascism or any other: somnambulism-"seeming to be awake but actually...
...Marin is a flowing-haired nature-lover who has no interest in transcribing nature, and a modern artist who finds himself "completely unsympathetic with cubism or other forms of abstraction, or with surrealism. I belong to no ism. I haven't the time. Shakespeare belonged to no ism." When a reporter cornered the old, thin man at the opening of his Boston show to ask who were his favorite painters, wry, shy John Marin had his answer ready: "Myself...