Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignorance of Latin American problems is not confined to Congressional circles. On every hand are heard oversimplified versions of "good-neighborliness" varying from the heights of altruism ("We will set the world an example of peaceful, democratic relations") to the opposite extreme of dollar diplomacy ("We want to sell them goods and ideas and stop Hitler from selling his"). Of the long-range political and economic complexities, little is heard. There is in the United States a superabundance of capital ready willing, and able to be invested. There is in south and Central America ample opportunity to put this money...
That in the simplest terms, is the fundamental dilemma the good neighbor policy is attempting to resolve. In spite of the grudging support or open opposition of American financial interests, it is attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention...
Using two recent books written by University professors as bad and good examples of the teaching he would like, Charles Rutherford, not listed in any catalogue although he states that he attended the University, book reviewer for Esquire, strikes at the educational system used here in the current issue of the magazine...
...another place he asks "Are the categories hitherto used in, let us say, University teaching, in our times, and our fathers', really serviceable? Does any really good mind ever get a kick out of studying stuff that has been put into water-tight compartments and hermetically sealed...
...Handel towering over them the lesser composers of the early 18th Century have been almost entirely obscured. Vivaldi, Corelli, Teleman, Rosenmuller and Rameau are only a few of the composers of this period whom the average concert-goer classifies--if at all--as "like Bach, but not as good...