Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Around a Pool," by Philip Brooks, the characters are of a somewhat higher social class (Harvard and Radcliffe, tall French windows, Atlantic Monthly) but they face a similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry...
...world's social conscience may well rejoice when it hears the glad tidings that the international crisis has at last penetrated the cloister walls of that Wellesley-satellite, Pine Manor. The powers-that-be have decided to postpone their production of Archibald MacLeish's "Air Raid" in order "to avoid complicating the international situation...
...fast and witty dialogue failed to draw any audience reaction except from the most learned professors in the front rows. The biting satire, so pertinent to the world today, was completely lost on the undergraduates. Here is a sad commentary on the neglect of the classics while the social sciences here at Harvard are flooded with more students than they can handle...
...federal government is the proper agency for the administration of relief, not state administrations, George Jacobs '40, head of the Social Security and Relief table, held...
...Noble's service will be to supply qualifications which his new boss lacks. Social Worker Hopkins, sick though he is, has done a fair job of smoothing out his own relations with U. S. businessmen since he became Secretary last January. But Ed Noble, in addition to being a competent smoothie, is a businessman himself. Other businessmen think he is a very good one. Fresh out of Yale, he and another pushy youngster named J. Roy Allen bumped into a Cleveland candymaker who, for a sideline, manufactured hard little mints shaped like and labeled Life Savers. Pushy Roy Allen...