Word: fabian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Committed to the same principles that characterized its English fore bearer, opposition to the system of private enterprise and advocacy of evolutionary socialism, the New Fabian Society will hold its first meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight...
...Valley of Humiliation. Since he left Russia as a twelve-year-old, Morris Cohen has taken and given many a hard knock. After crowding eight years of public school into three, he cleaned a poolroom to work his way through City College. A Scottish Fabian, Thomas Davidson, woke Cohen to an interest in philosophy; as a scholarship student at Harvard, where he roomed with Felix Frankfurter, he became a protěgé of William James. Then came what Cohen refers to as "dark and weary years ... in the valley of humiliation." As a poorly paid mathematics teacher at City...
What the Sirens Sang. Harold Joseph Laski was born (1893) in drab, industrial Manchester, but not to drabness: he was the son of a well-to-do Jewish merchant. As a youth, he was enchanted by those sirens of British socialism, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who were warbling their Fabian lays over the bleaching bones of Karl Marx. At Oxford, Laski joined the Fabian Society, campaigned for woman suffrage, was a brilliant student in his spare time. When World War I came, Laski disapproved, but tried to enlist. He was turned down because of a weak heart. He went...
...Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn't 15 of his officers rate free tuition at an Austrian university...
...Salzburg rushed a Cabinet deputation, joined by Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, breathless from his dash home from the San Francisco Conference. Leopold's brother, the Regent Prince Charles, also went along. Spaak urged Fabian tactics: the Socialists wanted Leopold to abdicate, the Liberals wanted him to rule-might it not be better for the King to prolong his exile just a little longer until Belgians could make up their minds...