Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined to work together to provide better lives for our people without sacrificing our common ideals . . . But we cannot succeed if our people are haunted by the constant fear of aggression and burdened by the cost of preparing their nations individually against attack. In this pact we hope to create a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression-a bulwark which will permit us to get on with the real business . . . the business of achieving a fuller and happier life...
...Grand Illusion. "For us in Britain, the 19th Century ended amid the glories of the Victorian era, and we entered upon the dawn of the 20th in high hope . . . Little did we guess that what has been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together. . . We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us ... In the name of ordered but unceasing progress we saluted the Age of Democracy ... It was to ... tasks...
Education is widely advertised as the force which will save the 20th Century from its own hatreds, confusions and follies. In liberal political theory, education is what gives the common man the ever increasing wisdom to govern his society. Again & again, during the M.I.T. convocation, speakers called on education to run major errands for humanity; philosophers wanted it to teach the proper attitude toward mass production, educators wanted it to do a better job of education...
...Industrialist Charles Allen Thomas (Monsanto Chemical Co.) put it: "Education . . . has gone from training for living to training to make a living." The University of California's Professor Frederic Lilge carried the analysis further into American life: "The common ground on which we may meet for mutual pleasure and understanding is narrowed . . . Instead of being plowed deeply and continuously by the art of good talk, it is planted with the purchased flowers of jokes and stories from the Reader's Digest, with radio and video...
...building Europeans. For the first time in history, a body of men are beginning to think and plan and build together as Europeans and not as nationals of separate states. They are developing more and more the habit of working together, of looking at their problems as common European problems. They are getting in the habit of having their economic plans criticized, and of criticizing those of other countries, and of working those separate plans into a common program. They are working as Europeans, with but one thought in mind: the economic recovery and economic unity and the well-being...