Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just what has been happening in the world at large since last June was the subject on which the Student Union filled the Union's big Common Room to overflowing last night. Actually, the talks and resulting discussion ranged far beyond this...
Gaetano Salvemini, Laure de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, revealed that he had yielded to the requests of his students and would carry his course beyond 1919, the advent of Fascism.. He will give all reading in authorized Fascist literature, while he will give the counter-attack in his lectures...
Like all virtuosi, he is the recipient of a good deal of criticism, both deserved and undeserved, and there is no doubt that many of its interpretations are not entirely pleasing to our Anglo-Saxon ears. Some listeners would prefer more contemporary works--others would not venture beyond Debussey. But in the main, he manages to do an admirable job of pleasing everyone and there are few indeed who do not thoroughly enjoy any of the series of five concerts to which they may subscribe...
...Beyond dispute, however, is one point about Walter Lippmann's present place in the American scene. His social philosophy, whether or not it be defined as liberal, has been reduced to one major principle: opposition to planned society, collectivism, dictatorship. This leaves unsettled just one important question in regard to Mr. Lippmann, a question which cannot be answered until a more significant judgment has been made: whether the New Deal will be written down in history as social reform or as the Dictatorship of the Forgotten...
Finally, in the editorial the Guardian calls itself "the first undergraduate magazine of the social sciences." If so, it is pedantic to limit its field to those of history, government, and economics. The field of the social sciences extends a great deal beyond this division. The field of the social and cultural phenomena is certainly incomparably larger and richer than the three segments of it studied by history, government and economics. Here again the Guardian seems to be an unduly obedient follower of the incidental divisions established by older generations. For such a "traditionalism" they are to be commended...