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"etymology_text": "From ism, with jocular substitution of was for is.",
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"ref": "1960, Peter Viereck, “The Global Lobal Blues [from The Tree Witch]”, in The New Mexico Quarterly, volume 30, Albuquerque, N.M.: Faculty of University of New Mexico, →OCLC, page 356; reprinted in “The Mob within the Heart”, in Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2008, →ISBN, part 2 (History: Its Sadness), page 137:",
"text": "Progress is a PLAStic bag; / Come stick in your head and what AILS you will gag. / Gasping the BLUE-in-the-face blues. / When our propaganda spasms turn your isms into wasms, / We'll bag the earth in a PLAStic globe and disconnect your frontal lobe / With our gadget-pop Agitprop air-jet-hop think-no-more blues.",
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"ref": "1996 March 10, Richard Taruskin, “Classical view: How talented composers become useless”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2016-10-05:",
"text": "The nice thing about an ism, someone once observed, is how quickly it becomes a wasm. Some musical wasms – academic-wasm, for example, and its dependent varieties of modern-wasm and Serial-wasm – continue to linger on artificial life support, though, and continue to threaten the increasingly fragile classical ecosystem.",
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"ref": "2000 fall, Donald S. Lopez Jr., “How the Buddha Got Ism-ed”, in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, volume 10, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Tricycle Foundation, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-12, page 42, column 1:",
"text": "Dwight Eisenhower, a president not particularly remembered for his wit, once remarked that \"all isms are wasms.\" He was presumably referring, rather presciently, to the largely forgotten isms that were once perceived as a threat to truth, justice, and the American way: Marxism, socialism, communism.",
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