Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jeff Davis died that year in New Orleans. A week later Robert Browning died. Jack the Ripper murdered his eighth victim, and Nellie Ely set sail around the world. The last of Bismarck's dangerously radical social legislation was passed. North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana were admitted...
...over. It ended in bewildering darkness, and, said General Bliss, happiness at its ending was subdued. The old States, the old ways of life, the old political and social organizations of Europe were shattered; 9,000,000 men had been killed in battle or had died of their wounds; 22,000,000 had been wounded; an unknown number of civilians died as a result of the War. "Not until our children's time can the former joy of life come into the world," Bliss remarked. "And it can come then only if our culminating work makes it impossible...
...disappeared before it could map its program. With them went bureaucrats, ruling cliques, political leaders, military castes, police functionaries, armies of officeholders, diplomats, the props and supports of the ruling dynasties. Replacing them came, along with the new States, new political organizations employing new methods to realize new social theories. In Russia a brilliant group of social theorists under Lenin struggled with rival theoricians, Tsarist generals, Allied intervention, for control of the former Russian Empire, but everywhere social experimentation-good or bad, radical or reactionary-was in the air. It was administered by politicians of a new type-professors like...
Polls, surveys and public relations agencies all show that institutions are increasingly conscious of the individuals related to them. Every-day problems of every-day individuals are the essence of broader institutional problems, and in order to get to the bottom of a social situation, it must be reduced to its lowest common denominator,--the individual. On this point the Grant Study is truly in the spirit of the times...
With the announcement of a free tea dance to be held from 4 to 7 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, May 27, after the Jubilee, the Freshman Committee in charge added another feature to the Yardlings' big social affair...