Word: fundamentalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fundamentalist. White-headed, eagle-beaked old Charles Beard has developed the most profoundly ironic mind of any U. S. historian. Because irony has value in a period of emotionalism, his new book is a timely astringent. Disavowing "Isolationism" as an impossibility, Beard argues, as he has before, for a "Conti-nentalism" consistent with the ideas of the Founding Fathers. Sonorous and bland, he mocks both the ambitious Imperialism of Theodore Roosevelt and the lofty Internationalism of Woodrow Wilson...
...Contrast between Beard and Buell is irresistibly like the contrast between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist points of view. The stern, old-fashioned eloquence is on one side; the massing of evidence on the other. Fundamentalist Beard has a simple image of the world. He writes of international relations as a matter of occasional notes between diplomats of remote nations. Modernist Buell writes of international relations in an era when radio propaganda has supplanted polite diplomatic exchanges. He envisions the world as that shrunken globe seen by Howard Hughes as he flew around it in 91 hours, as Pan-American...
...against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper and the other a sprinkler. Wroth, Trotsky called Schachtman "the floating kidney of the working class...
...Give the Fiddler a Dram, Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. Others, plaintive and plunky like Maple on the Hill, Brown's Ferry Blues, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, have gone on to wide juke-box favor. One recent find was a fine old Fundamentalist allegory called The Great Speckled Bird, probably inspired by Jeremiah...