Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cynical, complacent and evil-browed rulers, politicians, moguls, authors and social climbers which your columns must perforce exhibit, the charming figure of Princess Elizabeth [TIME, March 15] stands out like the morning star of human faith and hope. Alive, intelligent, eager, energetic, she is the quintessence of beauty ... a blessing to mankind. . . . A. W. SINCLAIR...
...being factually improbable than for being dramatically overdone. Sartre's soft-soaping Senator, for instance, is pure burlesque, and too amusing to be alarming; the whole story is so charged with sex and suspense that it titillates rather than terrifies. But if Prostitute is no tocsin of social protest, it rings the bell as melodrama...
...Empire decays-for Caesar's Empire always does decay after a run of a few hundred years. What may happen is that Christianity may be left as the spiritual heir of all the other higher religions . . . while the Christian church as an institution may be left as the social heir of all the other churches and all the civilizations...
This need for creativeness was the basis of Berdyaev's antiCommunist, anti-capitalist social philosophy, which he called "personalism." Like most 20th Century thinkers, he saw the contemporary world as in a state of flux between the final breakup of an old civilization and the beginning of a new. Christians, he argued, must concentrate...
...social-minded citizens of the world deeply appreciate [your] principles of Socialism, practical Christianity, ethical Vegetarianism. ... It is indeed fitting that the country which gave humanity two of its greatest philosophical vegetarians, the poet Shelley and the great visionary Sir Thomas More/'"*should now bestow upon you the forthcoming role of a British Moses. ... On behalf of three million peace-loving vegetarians, I convey their devout prayers that you will not falter [in your support of] the fundamental precepts of world-embracing vegetarianism...