Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EUROPE ON THE EVE-Frederick L. Schuman-Knopf ($3.50). A night-must-fall account of Europe's power politics in the tragic era, 1933-39, by a thoroughgoing scholar whose hatred for Naziism (with which, he claims, British Tories made a prearranged deal at Munich) leads to wishful-thinking...
...education meaning "an accumulation of knowledge of facts" rather than education as "a deepening of consciousness." When our braintrusters can be trusted because they have learned how to live wisely themselves instead of trying to impress us with their "Smart Alec" stuff there will indeed be a new era. It seems to me the "writing on the wall" was never plainer than at present, that the only solution to the world-wide mess is applied Christianity. Jesus did not establish dogmas nor creeds, but an example for living. We have wandered far afield and naturally suffer proportionately. MARGARET KEEN BUTCHER...
...problem to medicine. Nowadays medical treatment for civilians in wartime is primarily a problem in organization, and to doctors air raids mean nothing more than a monstrous epidemic of chest, neck and skull wounds, of broken arms, legs and backs. Furthermore, while an ordinary epidemic catches doctors unawares, this era's doctors have had plenty of time to prepare...
...before the Communist Party Congress, lashing out against the democracies. Stalin's Ambassador reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
When naive Alexandrina Victoria became Queen of England in 1837, she inherited as Prime Minister a fine worldly Whig: William Lamb, Lord Melbourne. For four years, he, the representative of a passing era, patiently tutored the young Queen who was to play the title role in a new age. But the same man had had another life, as William Lamb, second son of worldlywise, domineering Lady Melbourne. As William Lamb, he was the husband of Byron's mistress, Caroline Lamb, and was by all odds the most urbane of the many cuckolds whom George Gordon Lord Byron left...