Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LIFE'S pictures were taken from an educational motion picture called The Birth of a Baby. Produced twelve months ago by the American Committee on Maternal Welfare, Inc. and sponsored by 16 medical and social service societies, favorably previewed by a majority of 12,000 doctors and clubwomen, the picture showed a woman's life through pregnancy and childbirth (TIME, April 4). Climax of the film's 72 minutes was the actual birth of a baby. Medical groups from the American Medical Association down endorsed the film, and its serious purpose: the reduction of sickness and death...
Meantime, preponderantly to LIFE'S defense sprang an articulate sector of the medical and social service professions. When the police chief of New Haven, Conn, confiscated copies and arrested a dealer, the testimony of two Yale medical professors and a Congregational minister persuaded a judge to dismiss the case. Said the minister, the Rev. Dr. Oscar Maurer: "The failure of parents to acquaint their offspring with the facts of life justifies public agencies doing...
That Whitman might have been inspired by the powerful social movement at the time of the Civil War, that he might, for a few years, at least, have been a real poet, Author Shephard will not admit. Says she, the whole thing was a pose, based on a second-rate French novel. As a result, her book is likely to stand as a carefully documented, well worded, 453-page demonstration of its author's unfortunate inability to understand Whitman, his poems, or his times...
...DAUGHTER - Bessie Breuer - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). In Memory of Love Author Breuer wrote brashly but not brilliantly about a love affair from the male viewpoint. This time, no less candidly but with more social intent, she describes the painful affair (shared by her cynical mother) of an inhibited, literary virgin at a Florida winter resort...
Describing the present British foreign policy as "an evil policy dedicated to the preservation of the decaying structure of European capitalism," Laski said that the new rearmament program will make any constructive social program impossible for more than a generation. The tax rate necessary to support both would be impossible, he said...