Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Olafur Thors, alone in wanting the Americans to stay, got the largest popular vote, up 5% from the election three years ago, but Iceland's complicated electoral laws gave it only 19 seats in the Althing (parliament), a loss of two seats. An alliance of Progressive and Social Democrat parties won a commanding 25 seats (two short of majority). Holding the balance of power with eight seats: the Communists. They are strong among fishermen (the Soviet bloc has replaced Britain as the leading market for Iceland's main crop, fish...
...Sincere response to the will of God literally makes it impossible for us to be 'holier than thou' reformers when we look at the South," he told his congregation last February, "and at the same time overlook social irresponsibility and stark prejudice right under our very noses . . . What does your experience of God say? Shall we continue to segregate ourselves into white churches in Boston? If we do, can we still call ourselves Christians and followers of Jesus ?" Pastor Hale announced his intention to hire a Negro minister to replace the minister to students, who was leaving...
...already." Adds Jacques A. Gau, president of the National Mutual of the Students of France: "Three-quarters of the students who consult our doctors complain of anxiety, though they usually don't know precisely what the trouble is. And of the remaining 25%, many get social security benefits for other complaints, but their real trouble is mental...
...Group Mind. What should education be for? The reconstructionist's answer: education must try to create a new social order that is as close to Utopia as possible. The reconstructionist rejects all absolutes, thinks that there is no metaphysical design to the universe and that "history has no ingrained purpose, no preordained goal." All he wants to do is to build a future in which "man may be happier, more rational, more humane than he has ever been...
Since there are no absolutes, says Brameld, truth is only what the majority says it is. The task of both school and society is to determine what goals men should strive for by appealing to "social consensus." Though the individual must be encouraged, "our aim is always to build a 'group mind' that expresses the social consensus of the majority." The all-embracing value for the individual, says Brameld, is "social self-realization," and that comes only when each man comes "to grips with the realities of our group-centered culture...