Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawing up its platform the Club declared that "college students can cooperate with progressive and labor leaders in their continuity to carry on the movement for the formation of a party which will unite on a program of fundamental economic and political reform, including the nationalization and democratic management of public utilities and natural resources, taxation of excess profits and inheritances, government aid to farmers, opposition to war and imperialism, abolition of government injunctions in labor disputes, guarantee of civil liberties, and other measures which will pave the way for a government based on true political and industrial equality, social...
...motive behind this reform of Mayor Curley's is splendid, but the action seems a bit severe. In brief, it means that Boston theatres will not only be relieved of questionable dialogue and even more questionable displays; but the stages of the city will also be closed in future to many of the best productions of the older dramatists, and to almost all the works of more recent playwrights. Eugene O'Neill, for example, by the profanity regulation, will be completely barred. Such plays as "Rain" and "Anna Christie", not to mention "Liliom", all recognized as works of unusual merit...
SPRING CLEANING ? Artificial but sprightly comedy of the novelist-husband who tried to reform his wife after his own bookish methods...
...conception of Socialism is distinctive. He is not interested in temporary palliatives that go under the name of social reform any more than in direct action and the "dictatorship of the proletariat". He believes in socialism as a scientific process--a matter of biological evolution, and he insists that before it can be tried it must be approved by a majority of the country. With the Marxian idea of class warfare he has as little sympathy as with the state socialism of the Germans and their imitators. And although he is aware of the condition of the mass...
...Like." And the Secretary explains with the comments "Let the men keep their hats on, as they invariably do in European galleries. We want to get them to show less respect for art and more understanding and liking for it." Whether this apparently trivial act will reform the American attitude is much to be doubted. But as William Penn's refusal to doff his beaver before His Majesty's judges testified to his intellectual freedom, so may the emancipated American of the future stand unawed--and hatted before a Titian...