Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genial, spirited Phillips Brooks would have been pleased by the awakened sense of social responsibility demonstrated by many Harvard students. His heart would have been warmed by the increasing number of students volunteering "for active service" in settlement houses and by the thought that Phillips Brooks House, in organization and effectiveness, was was beginning to realize its potentialities...
...analysis of this tendency might trace undergraduate interest to a national awareness of social problems brought about by the depression and undimmed, as yet, by evidence of returning prosperity. But any investigation uncovers more than this. At Harvard the trend is also accounted for by a perfected local organization, a more vigorous personnel, and a desire of budding social scientists, whatever their particular field, to gain their education by actual experience as well as books...
...cracks in Two Hundred Were Chosen are literally calked with cinematic hokum and bucolic humor of the "Hold 'er, Newt, she's a-r'arin' " school, but beneath all this there is plainly discernible a sincere and imaginative view of an unusual social experiment. A woman fed up with the childish bickering of the males shouts the play's most astringent line: "There aren't any men up here-only farmers...
...United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure of genuine Americanism. He believes in democracy and a Republican liberalism that will provide social security and do it without the spoils system of Jim Farley...
Over-alert social critics are apt to notice leftist leanings in the play, such as a Communist's being sent to death by mob hysteria, and a policeman's bullying the poor. These suggestions, if not completely illusory, are at best irrelevant and insignificant...