Word: destroyer
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...Einstein described the impact of Nazidom upon self-deceiving Jews thus: "A single political upheaval was sufficient to destroy all their illusions. In a single moment they lost all those insecure possessions whose acquisition was bought at the sacrifice of their inner dignity and their traditional historical individuality...
...concluding chapter he suggests three ways for America to destroy this threatening ogre. First, he favors the elimination of the Imposture of modernistic art. Second, he would give art students more thorough technical discipline, and lastly, he would educate the public to a sufficient level that it could "recognize and respond to a true creative...
...that the Liberal Club has petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to vote down a bill which would make membership in the Communist Party a felony is welcome news. Not only does the bill violate the principle of free speech, but it would encourage the very activity it is intended to destroy...
...Classicist, then, should distinguish between encouraging the study of Latin and Greek and supporting a regulation that serves simply to destroy the meaning of the Harvard science degree. Subjects that retain significance and vitality in relation to modern life should be able to attract students through their intrinsic value, without requiring the artificial support of requirements. If the present rules did force uninterested students to gain a perfunctory knowledge of a classical language, their value would be doubtful; since they do not accomplish even this, they are indefensible...
...hasn't since 1929. It is only natural that he should reach for such bromides as the share-the-Wealth plan or the Townsend plan. No amount of explaining that, for instance, the economic system cannot possibly raise such tremendous annual sums as Townsend offers the old duffers, will destroy for the average man the illusion that bread is being taken out of his mouth. He remains an ardent advocate of the plan in the expectation that he will have some day $200 a month himself...