Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hicks emphasized the importance of the work done by Morris in the Social Democratic Federation. Adopting an unpopular cause, he influenced many of his contemporaries although he won few disciples. Throughout his books there is strong practical middle class streak which keeps him from becoming a typical radical utopian and makes his doctrine a much more reasonable prediction of what has happened than Bellamy or his other contemporaries...
Liberal lawyers hold that the law flourishes by truing up ever more wisely with new and unblinkable social conditions. Liberal artists conceive the tradition of the fine arts as involving a like growth and adaptation. Occasionally, in each field, progress in interpretation is marked by a commentary so learned as to become a classic. Published last week was a serious book which may well become a sort of Blackstone on Coke to future art students. The subject: The Art of Cezanne* The commentators: Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Dr. Albert Coombs (''Argyrol") Barnes of Merion...
...problems of contemporary life is whether the movies should help people to solve, or forget, contemporary problems. Most Hollywood producers favor forgetfulness. Consequently, films which are even remotely concerned with social problems are rarities. Last week's big cinema news was the simultaneous opening of two such pictures...
...fire breaks out, her small brother falls off a ladder, a bystander (Leif Erikson) takes both to the hospital. He turns out to be the owner of the tenement. Convinced that he has been remiss, he decides to pull down all his old tenements, put up better ones. Legal, social and domestic difficulties impede him. But when the tenement where Mary Rogers lives flares up again, he finally goes to work...
...general the movies may be applauded for trying to attack, instead of to compensate for, U. S. social ills. As examples of a trend, Boy Slaves and ". . . one-third of a nation" are commendable. Unfortunately, they are also individual products, to be judged according to their merits, and as such they are dishearteningly trivial...