Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three permanent professors, reinforced by others on loan from the world's theological schools, universities and churches, would teach them such subjects as modern evangelism, Christian ethics and pedagogy, sociology, the Ecumenical Movement. Courses would be divided into three-month periods, but students at Celigny would be urged to stay for at least six months before going forth "to present the Christian message to [Europe's] demoralized young people . . . and to build with them new forms of moral and social life on Christian foundations...
...objective a strong, unified labor movement? No labor leader in U.S. history has split labor into so many parts and hacked off so many splinters. Does he really give a damn for labor? He speaks of labor in sweeping, lofty terms: "I salute the hosts of labor. ..." Labor to him was "18 million stomachs clashing against backbones." A few years later it had become "52 million shrunken bellies." Paunchy Mr. Lewis is haunted by flat stomachs...
...millions of Southern workers and create a new era of lasting prosperity in the land of Dixie. . . . We come here not as invaders from the North but as old friends. . . . Nothing can stop us, neither the opposition of reactionary management nor the rivalry of the Communistic dual movement. . . . The workers of the South are going to organize. Employer resistance will only redouble our efforts. . . . Let me give Southern industry this warning-cooperate with us or fight for your life against Communist forces...
...tight little allegory, set up against an inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which compelled both men to allegorize are the same. Cut off from his Puritan heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions of his times are intolerable. finding that the times are out of joint, Wilson has, like Hawthorne, discovered in the Puritan method...
...difficult to reconcile these two statements. Of course there are fanatics in the movement for world government (as there are in every movement). But do not condemn the movement because of a few of its erring supporters. The movement for world government has as its immediate objective the "intelligent discussion and criticism" which you advocate, but unlike your editorial, it recognizes the U. N. for what it is, a political anachronism. Until its charter is amended it will remain merely a forum for the airing of disputes, a laudable institution indeed, but one which in the final analysis will never...