Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Potent Jouhaux) to "reconsider the danger of general action which, pushed to the limit, would compromise the security of the nation." On the other hand, it asked the State (i. e., Decree-Potent Daladier) to "seek all means of calming the nation's emotions and of appeasing the social conflict." To most Frenchmen the voice of those who have fought and might have died for France is vox populi-and Daladier is of course a World War veteran...
...reported that she now had a serious hearing impairment, was almost deaf. She had suffered so long from hysteria which had deprived her of her voice that the condition was now chronic* and there was small chance she would ever leave her solitary world and participate in normal social life...
...Catholic cries out against any civic philosophy which would degrade man to the position of a soulless pawn in a sordid game of power and prestige, or would seek to banish him from membership in the human family; ... he opposes any social philosophy which would regard man as a mere chattel in commercial competition for profit, or would set him at the throat of his fellows in a blind, brutish class struggle for existence...
...enjoined the Catholic University to "give special attention to the sciences of civics, sociology and economics . . . evolve a constructive program of social action, fitted in its details to local needs, which will command the admiration and acceptance of all right-thinking...
Like Awake and Sing!, like Paradise Lost, like confusion itself, the new play does not move in a straight line. In his social-minded plays Odets has drawn people who are confused because a materialistic society pulls them one way, their instincts another. But in Rocket to the Moon psychological dislocations result from a clash of temperaments, a lack of drive. And Odets will not stay with his plot. He pursues a mystical theme which overrides it: the need for love to vitalize human lives. Inoculated with this virus, his characters cease to be individuals in a specific situation, turn...