Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Order, which is indispensable to all collective organization, has been spoken of. Democracy is precisely the regime that permits societies to progress in order, since it makes progress depend on the general will and on a more and more enlightened will...
...thanks to democracy that Britain has been able to control that continuous and almost insensible adaptation between progress and tradition which has permitted her to transform all her institutions while remaining faithful to herself? Is it not thanks to democracy that the United States has been able to bring about a prodigious economic renewal in a few years without compromising legal order for a single instant, without going outside the framework of the Constitution elaborated just after the War of Independence by American disciples of Montesquieu and Rousseau? "No, democracy does not emerge condemned by the long trial waged against...
...numerous but inept cast, this unprofessional melodrama appears to be merely a rough preliminary sketch pointed toward a later and more finished film version. Several of the roles are undertaken by minor Hollywood actors, whose performances are about on a par with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send his old mother to a sanatorium...
...Class of '29", a grim catalogue of the trials and terrors awaiting today's, or perhaps yesterday's, college graduate, is being presented at the Repertory Theatre by the Federal Theatre, an arm of the Works Progress Administration...
...actors, much the same as the people they represent, are parading their talents before an oblivious world. But all are compotent, and some are good. Jack F. Ryder, in the rule of the above Ken Holden, has to appear, as the acts progress, grumpy, elsted, and placidly drunk, and does brilliantly in all except the first. One cannot help wishing the reclaimed actors well, and feeling that here at least is not boondoggling...