Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shih, visiting lecturer on Chinese, will deliver the annual Ingersoll lecture this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Andover Chapel on the "Concept of Immortality in Chinese Thought." This lecture, provided for by a fund left by Ralph Ingersoll, often called "The Great Agnostic" of the last century, is given annually at an April gathering of Divinity School alumni on the subject of the "Immortality...
...them. In numberless ways, Franklin Roosevelt made his main point over & over again: I think Yalta is pretty good; it's not perfect, but it's a good start. I also know that 33 of you, Democrats and Republicans, can band together to block the whole concept of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks. That is why I am talking to you and soliciting your support...
Business, says Ruml, affects everyone. Such ideals as freedom from want and fear, freedom of the individual to live as he chooses can be realized by business, through its instruments: high employment and productivity. But business itself must first learn a new concept of freedom. It must learn and conform to the controls for freedom-e.g., reasonable Government regulation-within which it must act. In the same manner, those who wield the power over business for Government must also learn the controls which, by giving business its greatest freedom, can enable...
...concept that unemployment is as unnecessary in peace as it is impossible in total war is now popular in the U.S. For Great Britain, Sir William has now supplied a bill of particulars for carrying a planned economy from war to peace. Throughout, he insists his program of "enlightened socialism" can be carried out without abolition of private ownership, an assertion with which many would disagree. The new Beveridge plan will be published by W. W. Norton & Co. in the U.S. in February. The report may have as much of an effect on U.S. opinion as did publication...
Arsenic and Old Lace (Warners) is a reasonable facsimile of the Broadway comedy about two Brooklyn spinsters who make a hobby of dosing old men with arsenic. By inverting the traditional concept of murder as a crime of passion and turning it into an ingenuous diversion for pixillated old ladies, wholesale slaughter is made an innocently delightful subject...