Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight's meetings, similarly informal, and limited in length to one hour will be at Adams House, where "American Democracy" is to be discussed, and at Kirkland; where the subject is "Social conditions in Elizabethan England...
...Women. Not only were Britain's women taking the major part in Britain's social reorientation, they were taking the brunt of it. The men were in the Army or the Government or carrying on in essential businesses, for the time being socially fixed. With the women it was different. Many thousands of British working women found themselves suddenly out of work as business and industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly...
...Survey Graphic, "magazine of social interpretation," thus keynoted "the challenge of democracy to education" in its October issue last week. Survey Graphic last February began an attempt to arouse sluggish U. S. democrats with a trumpeting series entitled "Calling America." Because it believes that "democracy begins in the cradle," the magazine devoted its entire October issue to an appraisal of the U. S. educational system, by 31 famed educators and journalists...
...Sistie & Buzzie Dall but Shirley Temple are members, and full membership is earned by sending in for tokens of every product Uncle Don plugs. One season he plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a pretty penny. But parents tolerate him because he inveighs against such social errors as nail biting, gulping, temper, socking, preaches a series of corrective little stories involving two hypothetical and unruly tikes named Willapuss-Wallapuss and Suzan-Beduzin. Somehow all this is as beguiling to children as bubblegum...
...more than a class-room stunt. It is the old story of individual taste which has and will remain unchanged. But there is one new standard of critical truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting us, it is only fair that it adopt, to some extent, the ethical pattern within which we exist. Despite the fact that...