Word: diffusionism
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As they moved farther away, in both time and space, from their Asiatic homeland, the Ipiutaks shed their Asiatic culture. But Larsen hopes to prove that before the light from Asia died out, some sparks of it passed down the coast by "cultural diffusion," and affected races far to the...
* Two years ago Britain's BBC barred hypnotists from television (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946) because of a private test during which four of six BBC staffers went to sleep. In Paris this spring, Egyptian Fakir Tahra Bey allegedly hypnotized part of his studio audience and some of his countrywide...
¶ A British proposal on press freedom, and the partial draft of a U.N. Covenant on Human Rights, both of which permit penalties for "systematic diffusion" of false news endangering peace. The U.S. opposed both, thinking they went too far in the direction of state control of news. The Soviet...
All this does not deny "The Stoic" its merits. As a story it is often good Dreiser, which is very good fiction indeed. Marked by the vitality and massive documentation typical of Dreiser, this extension of Cowperwood's activities into the London financial world at times hits with undeniable power...
History shows that political freedom and economic progress depend upon diffusion of power and multiplication of foci of energy and drive-neither attainable under collectivism. . . .