Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Professor Laski declared that "This is a revolutionary cpoch" in his lectures on political philosophy last week, he struck a note that is being echoed by political observers all over the world. "Democracy is on trial"; "This century will see a struggle for power between Fascism and Communism," and...
Along with these portraits Philosopher Edman does not neglect philosophical morals, which consist mainly of advice not to become panicky about the way the contemporary world is going. Spinoza, he points out, went on grinding lenses for a living while war and revolution raged around him in Holland, and Santayana...
His most ambitious tour de force so far, Testament is Author Hutchinson's try at assimilating Russia: a Russian novel, with an all-Russian cast of characters, covering the last years of the War and the first years of the Revolution. In its length (693 pages), its crowded, turbulent...
To hurried readers Author Hutchinson will appear to have met these great Russians on their own ground. He gives a remarkably sympathetic characterization of Russian intellectuals and professionals; he writes exciting, if confused, narrative; even achieves some of the massive tediouness of the Russian novelists. But where the Russians succeeded...
To a Germany known to be in precarious financial straits, the assassination of a minor ambassadorial official in Paris recently was nothing less than providential. The fact that the killing was done by a Jew, which race Hitler has no qualms about persecuting, may do much to help Nazi-land...