Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.S.F.S.R. In London 60 years ago, when he was red-bearded and in his 20s, George Bernard Shaw joined the newly founded Fabian Society.† It was a socialist group, ambitious to reconstruct "society in accordance with the highest moral possibilities." The Fabians rejected the Marxian doctrine that socialism must be preceded by revolution. They believed in "gradualism," holding that the socialist principle was partially embodied in most governments and capable of extension through existing political parties...
...Reconstruct the devastated cities of Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London, Stalingrad, Valetta, Berlin, Tokyo...
Justice, Truth, God. "The . . . reformation for which the world waits depends, then, upon true and deeply held convictions about the nature of man, the ends of life, the purposes of the state and the order of goods. . . . This means that we must reconstruct education, directing it to virtue and intelligence...
Both undergraduate articles somehow fail to click. "Rome Denied," by Peter Ward Fay '45 combines clever phraseology with a thesis that is neither original nor stimulating, for he holds that Italy's trials during the past seventy years are a reflection of a second-class power striving vainly to reconstruct the grandeur that was Rome. Samuel Perry '45, on the other hand, has an important subject but fails to express it well. Perry is defending the Negro press, an institution well worth both defense and encouragement, but whose existence and importance are virtually unknown except among its own subscribers...
...will this national character face up to total war? asks Author Mead. How can it best be drawn upon to fight now and reconstruct later? Some of her suggestions...