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Died. G.D.H. (for George Douglas Howard) Cole, 69. grand old sachem of British socialism, Oxford don. Labor intellectual, president of the Fabian Society, chairman of the New Statesman, energetic author (A History of Socialist Thought, The Intelligent Man's Guide through World Chaos) who also wrote whodunits with his wife (Murder in the Munition Works)] in London. After onetime Prime Minister Clement Attlee was elevated to the peerage, G.D.H. Cole sneeringly wondered how a Laborite could "wish to be so degraded." Wrote New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin last week: "Douglas Cole was a secular saint...
...Doctor's Dilemma (Comet; M-G-M). The Fabian intellect and the Wagnerian soul were the lion and the unicorn of Bernard Shaw's personal mythology and creative life. In his later writings these opposites lie down together peacefully in the green pastures of Creative Evolution, but in The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) the two tendencies almost tear each other, and the play, apart. With all his romantic soul, Shaw longed to write a tragedy of the one and the many, of the creator-criminal murdered by the power of positive thinking and collective morality. With...
...child can see 12½ hours of nighttime westerns weekly v. 3⅓ in Britain, 10 hours of private-eye shows v. 5 in Britain. And by comparison with such U.S. cut-'n'-shoots as Peter Gunn (see below), the British children's favorite thriller, gentlemanly Fabian of Scotland Yard, rarely fired a slug from pistol or bottle. The British sociologists still saw much room for improvement: better dramas outside the dog-cowboy-detective formulas, more attention to girls (half the audience). Meanwhile, as the London Daily Mirror's "Cassandra" put it: "The appalling mediocrity...
...slump is, so far, not statistically catastrophic, the President's Fabian tactics may have some rationale. But the refusal to let the serious unemployment shake any of his economic convictions can have far more damaging effects. The recession, representing not a "loss of confidence," but a real and recurrent problem in an "affluent society," demands a reassessment of some of the President's cherished economic slogans...
Describing his views as close to those of Fabian Socialism and, on the international level, Nehru's neutralism, Tsuru said he gradually shifted toward "realism and moderation" as he matured. He was first disillusioned by the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression Past...