Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all capable dictators, Cuba's strong man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, shows much concern over the common people. Although he holds no elective office, benevolent Tyrant Batista often leaves the studied luxuries of Havana and, like Mexico's Lázaro Cárdenas, gets firsthand impressions in the decidedly less comfortable interior. Cuba's economic pains, including unemployment, have been only partly cured by the U. S. Good Neighbor policy which reduced the U. S. tariff on the island's big product, sugar. Last week, Colonel Batista moved to help Cuba's unemployed...
Nonsectarian, incorporated in 1935, the Federation construes the word "churches" broadly, to mean a group of people with a common aim. The Federation's aim, shared by 20,000 people in the U. S., is to apply the principles of the Sermon on the Mount "scientifically" to modern life. The Federation considers the lilies of the field, how they grow, and it accepts Christ's words: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works. To grow like the lily or to shine like the light is to use the "creative essence...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
...works and could reel off an impromptu psychoanalysis at the drop of a symbol. With Depression, Freud was more & more often supplanted either by such former disciples as Alfred Butler, who called his adaptation "Individual Psychology," or by Karl Marx. To some observers, Freud's declining popularity among common readers looked permanent...
Education has never had an authoritative dictionary of its technical terms. Any three educators would haggle themselves silly trying to find a common 15-word definition for frontier thinkers, organismic psychology, transfer of training. Last week, at last, Phi Delta Kappa, 29-year-old professional fraternity of education, announced that it would compile from the best written sources and from the knowledge of its 23,000 members a Dictionary of Education. ΦΔΚ hopes to complete its work in about four years...