Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberal education is on the operating table, and war alone has not brought it there. For over a decade, and throughout the nation, there has been a questioning and re-examination, resulting in a variety of experiments to rejuvenate and implement the liberal arts. The House system at Harvard, with the broadening of tutorial, was one searching move. Chicago is looking for a basic, speeded curriculum; St. Johns does it with "great books"; Columbia and other colleges experiment with broad introductory courses. There have been periodic shifts from area to area, with the humanities losing first to social and then...
These were bold promises. Bold action was needed to implement them. The nation had two hopes: that the bold action would really come, and that it was not too late...
Since Pearl Harbor, Hollywood has been trying to turn out a good war picture. At last something has come. "Air Force" is a fine film about a group of flyers and their plane. Something like the group of "In Which We Serve," the story centers around an implement of war--a bomber...
...friends," said Madame Chiang, "I feel that it is necessary for us not only to have ideals and to proclaim that we have them, it is necessary that we act to implement them...
Fulfillment Deferred? But to implement that progress, the need now is not for soldiers but for statesmen. Though the U.S. has the equipment and the experience no other country has, it is still poor in the pivotal bases on which world air transport depends. Those bases belong to U.S. allies -Britain, Russia and China. Unless U.S. statesmen can wangle the rights to their use, the U.S. will be left at the post. That is why airmen say that now is the time to face the situation...