Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year. Further reductions, hoped Liebaert, would save $30 million in 1950 and $40 million in 1951. Though Belgium has a deficit of $90 million this year, Liebaert, no advocate of the welfare state, thought he could still balance the budget, as well as drop taxes, by trimming social-security benefits, coal and railway subsidies...
...Society," raved one social chronicler, "staged a magnificent comeback, with blazing jewels and gorgeous gowns." It turned out to be an audience of distinction in other ways: nobody stood on his head nor did any of the ladies put their feet on the tables. Before the curtain went up there were ovations for arriving celebrities, Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, dapper little U.N. General Assembly President Carlos P. Romulo, Tenor and Hollywood Actor Lauritz Melchior ("Ahhh, I'm grateful to the movies. I am discovered as a glamour boy before it is too late...
...Shameful?" Brunner examines the specific application of Christianity to nine aspects of civilized life: technics, science, tradition, education, work, art, wealth, social custom and power. In putting each in its Christian place, he is not afraid to expose himself to the fire power of experts in the various fields. He tells scientists that there is nothing wrong with their subject except that it has grown too big for its britches. "Science knows what is, it does not know what ought to be ... Speaking in general, science in our day claims more room within the totality of human life than...
...Spiritual Basis. Social reformers, politicians and revolutionaries should be instructed by Christian teaching, according to Brunner, that only from within a man's heart can society be really transformed. That is why Christianity, "the most revolutionary force of world history, manifests itself under the guise of a conservative attitude. It is exactly by being so radically revolutionary that it takes a conservative appearance. The Christian knows that all changes that begin from without are no real changes...
...Luce suggested profit-sharing and laws "in the direction of social justice" as a start toward bringing capitalism more in line with Christian ethics, but warned against the trend to "statism...