Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible benefits of a new approach-provided it had something to recommend it beyond mere newness. But such an approach can only be a tactical means of implementing the principle, explained by Dulles in a San Francisco speech last week, that freedom itself-especially freedom expressed in economic and social progress and military confidence-is a force that can and will prevail. That principle is the basis of U.S. cold war policy. And the success of that policy, particularly as expressed in burgeoning West Germany, is the reason Nikita Khrushchev wants Berlin...
...forms is a concern with important social questions which insures that he will always write about something worth reading about; since Rome burns every day, a cry of "Fire!" has a certain sort of interest that simple fiddling can never attain. And it means that even the least of his plays has a vitality, an urgency, that could not exist if the author were not passionately involved with every line. "Passion" is a frequently debased word in our time, but Bernard Shaw has reminded us of the existence of a moral passion that can be no less strong than...
Speaking to the Social Relations Graduate Colloquium on "Conformism, Protestantism, and the Current Religious Resurgence," Tillich declared that ambiguity in the resurgence was reflected by the "use" of religion "as a tool rather than as a means of understanding...
...political and social realms, man was reduced to a "working power," and rediscovered as the self in "anxiety, guilt, and despair," Tillich said. One outgrowth of this rediscovery was expressionist art, which "showed the world in its demonic character...
Following Tillich's remarks, Robert N. Bellah '48, lecturer on Social Relations and on World Religions, agreed that the past century has seen a modern major cultural crisis, citing as evidence a basic questioning of values with overtones of nihilism...