Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish," wrote General Moseley, ". . . to talk, as a private citizen, about the problems that you and I and every other loyal American must face. . . . Make no mistake, the world drift is away from democracy . . . and America is caught in that drift. There is much encouragement, however, in the results of the September elections, where the integrity and the independence of the American voter has been shown...
Published in the U. S. last week was an other book by Professor Hogben, titled Science for the Citizen* subtitled "The Second of the Primers for the Age of Plenty.'' Started long before Mathematics for the Million, this hulking tome runs to 1,076 close-packed pages. It surveys almost the whole field of science, from its origins onward, is built on five main pillars: Astronomy, Chemistry, Power, Biology, Behavior...
Science for the Citizen was published four months ago in England where it was a non-fiction bestseller. No doubt sales in the U. S. will be equally large. The book is a remarkably learned compendium of scientific information, and when Professor Hogben wanders into little essays on the historical and present interrelations of science and society he does so with lucidity. But it is unlikely that everyone who buys Science for the Citizen will read it through. For Professor Hogben has obviously overestimated the stamina of the lay reader, even of intelligent, fairly well educated...
Fact is that both Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen are not works of popularization at all, in the ordinary sense, but textbooks or reference books. The former is full of difficult mathematics, the latter of intricate analyses, complex charts and diagrams, formidable mathematical and chemical equations. Professor Hogben has even inserted lists of questions and problems at the ends of his chapters for those who take their learning hard...
...these men who came with dollars from Denver or Minneapolis the Red Cross yesterday offered a bargain. For ten dollars it will not give them a pair of imported trousers, but to another American citizen, destitute through no fault of his own, it will give food, shelter, security and rehabilitation. An Act of God has placed 50,000 people in need of this aid, and it will be given. Harvard will help...