Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since I originally picked the Elis to finish seventh, they've got to start doing some heavy losing pronto. The Tigers are without Brian McCullough today, but there are some top boys behind him, so it shouldn't be a crucial setback. When he sang his autobiography. "Tiger." Fabian wasn't convincing. But Princeton plays the part well. Too much for the Big Blue. Perhaps...
...politics, as in much else, Shaw was often preposterous. One after the other, as the dictators appeared, he applauded Mussolini. Hitler and Stalin -in the no-nonsense manner of a Fabian socialist committee-on the grounds that they were cleaning up a mess. Such obtuseness in a man whose life is a record of devotion to decency in human life can be explained only as an aberration, perhaps a dramatist's occupational disability of putting his own words into the mouths of other characters. Lenin saw Shaw as "a good man fallen among Fabians." Shaw, perversely, seemed to regard...
...assistant, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in South Kensington, where Thomas Huxley was teaching biology at the time. It was Huxley who first excited Wells' interest in science. But young Wells' omnivorous curiosity-always subject to other intellectual temptations -was diverted into Fabian socialism, literature and debating. Putting more and more time into self-education, he muffed his degree examinations. As a schoolmaster exiled to the borders of Wales, he was stomped in the back while refereeing a football match and almost died of a ruptured kidney...
...from 1931 to 1960, whose radical views helped shape Labor Party policy and colored the entire fabric of British politics; of a stroke; in Cairo. When Martin came to the New Statesman, it was an insignificant left-wing weekly with a small readership and less clout. Martin drew his Fabian Society friends (G. B. Shaw, H. G. Wells) to the pages of the magazine, made it Britain's foremost intellectual forum, increased circulation to 80,000. His own influential column, "London Diary," was Utopian in thrust, often whimsical in tone, and maddening to the government. Though radicals rallied around...
...Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship following a divorce earlier this year, managed to trounce Democrat Bronson LaFollette, 32, heir to a grand old Badger State name, but a man of little political experience. New Mexico's David Cargo, 39, barely squeaked past Democrat Fabian Chavez in a down-to-the-wire race. On the other hand, such Democrats as Missouri's Warren Hearnes, 45, North Dakota's William L. Guy, 49, Utah's Calvin Rampton, 54, and Kansas' Robert Docking, 43, all won re-election handily...