Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that much of modern sculpture can be multiplied through casting in bronze, terra cotta, and artificial stone gives it a far greater social significance than painting. It is, perhaps, for this reason that German sculpture (together with architecture) reached a peak of general excellence never attained by painting and scarcely reached even by sculptors of other countries...
...cast, many of whom were members of the Republican Army, play their roles with such feeling and restraint that the feeling of creaky propaganda, too apparent in many epics of social struggle, is absent. As a result the picture possesses a dignity and artistic sincerity not often met with. Mr. O'Sullivan as the young patriot and Miss O'Connor as his fiancee are outstanding. The quality of the photography and sound lag a little behind that of the acting, but these can be learned from Hollywood, while fine acting cannot...
...parturition in the patriotic breast of Senator McNaboe, whose record includes vigorous support of the New York Teachers' Oath Law and an oft repeated demand for an investigation of subversive activities on the Cornell campus. It is discouraging that a legislature which has just enacted a constructive program of social reform should have taken so seriously the emotional fulminations of Senator McNaboe, that it passed a bill which would bar from teaching posts some idealistic parlor pinks whose sole crime is the possession of a confused and incoherent social consciousness...
...serious gap in the House Plan is its utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life; intramural athletics are strenuously cultivated and social events benignly encouraged, but the task of stimulating thought and discussion in the Houses has been left to very occasional common room orators. As a partial remedy to this oversight, the Debating Council's plan to organize House Debating teams is worth serious consideration...
...turnout would not be overwhelming at first. Indeed, when 15 out of 123 Winthrop House men signified their interest in the project, they represented a larger percentage than can be hoped for in all the Houses. Yet the plan offers intelligent audiences of Cambridge and Boston social clubs, and the possibility of rapid promotion to the Varsity debating team; under such a stimulus this lost art should undergo a renaissance...