Word: barbariane
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...Barbarian. Old or new, the crisis, as seen from the speaker's platform, was not all a matter of foreign policy or of dealing with the Russians. The graduates of 1951 would be "facing a far more subtle danger right at home. The question on many of the speakers' minds: What has happened to the individual...
...Houston's Rice Institute, President Lewis Webster Jones of the University of Arkansas warned the graduating seniors: "We are raising our own [barbarian] . . . he mass man, the self-satisfied man [who] accepts as part of the order of nature all the wonderful achievements of his own civilization . . . takes them as given, feels no personal responsibility for the society which has made them possible. He expects to use and exploit them. He prides himself on being the average man. If he admires anything outside himself, it is the 'smart operator,' the getter-by, the fixer...
...have peace only if we have justice and fair dealing among nations. The United Nations is the best means we have for deciding what is right and what is wrong between nations . . . Nothing is more important if mankind is to overcome the barbarian doctrine that might makes right...
...Childress is rocked back on his heels by Mollie, but something deep inside drives him to the grim decision to remarry her and go back home. A European friend explains the deep-inside part for him. "The American woman is a barbarian by comparison . . . She's a Roman next to a Greek. Forgive me, but you're a Roman too, with a Greek sensibility, and that's why you must tame your Roman woman before you'll be happy...
...seems to me that Lewis' portrayal of the "semi-civilized barbarian" does not justify the term "period piece" in these days, when the only faith we have is in materialism -only we have gone Babbitt one better and put our hopes in militaristic materialism. Possibly a re-examination of the Babbitts which Sinclair Lewis portrayed so well will teach us to put our faith in something better during...