Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grasp the Future. Mao began to develop a social conscience. Once there was a famine in the Shao Shan district and the poor, asking help from the rich farmers, started a movement called "Eat Rice Without Charge." This seemed reasonable to Mao, but not to his father who, like other farmers, kept selling rice to cities despite the local famine. Young Mao read pamphlets about the Western powers that were dismembering China. He read books that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded...
...which enrollments continue to increase despite the fact that many of last year's graduates are still not placed. Chemistry and psychology will soon be overcrowded unless the student has a graduate degree. The field of personnel work, and some areas of secondary education (especially physical education, social science and English) are also overcrowded. Professional fields where recruits are still badly needed: medicine, dentistry, nursing and grade-school teaching...
Forward the Heart (by Bernard Reines; produced by Theatre Enterprises, Inc. & Leon J. Bronesky) attempts to treat a compound social fracture-always a ticklish business. Playwright Reines's double-problem play first shows a young painter who has been blinded in the War and is bitterly unadjusted. Only when he falls in love with his mother's sympathetic, intelligent young maid does life seem worth living. Then he discovers that the maid is a Negro...
...terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve an artistic resolution than it can supply a practical answer. As realism, it also suffers a good deal from very seldom seeming real. Author Reines is always too conscious of his social issues, too ready with a speech. What is most disastrous of all, the actual writing is far too often inept...
...come from the Class of 1952 so that they can work out all the details of publication in time for early distribution. It is a simple problem, simply solved. For all its simplicity, however, the solution is one that could make an important contribution to the freshman's difficult social orientation...