Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army eleven years after the Wehrmacht's surrender, are again debating this fateful question, and the old, martial German answers no longer ring true. Last week one of West Germany's 14 Evangelical Academies-which have been holding conferences for laymen to discuss moral and social problems-considered the sanctions for war in the modern world. At Loccum, near Hannover, gathered 120 military leaders, chaplains, bankers, white collar workers and clergymen from seven countries. First speaker was the secretary-general of the German Evangelical Church's annual Church Day, Dr. Hans-Herman Walz. The thing worth fighting...
...there will be from 34% to 63% more people on earth than in 1950. To some this suggests the need for birth control. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that any mechanical interference with the consequences of sexual intercourse is a mortal sin. But The Netherlands' Catholic Institute for Social-Ecclesiastical Research (moving next month to Geneva) has launched a $5,000 prize contest to find new ways of controlling population...
...institute fears that the population increase in the "underdeveloped areas" will be so rapid that "religious and moral disintegration" may result. To prevent this, argues the institute, "social, economic and cultural means" should be looked for, but may not be enough. Asks the institute: "How could the population growth itself be influenced" to bring about a "social structure satisfying the-requirements of complete human well-being?" Answers (minimum of 50,000 words) must comply with the requirements of Catholic principles and at the same time must be effective from a positive scientific point of view." Winners will be chosen before...
...Voisin by name, was no innocent victim but a notorious poisoner and promoter of Black Masses. She symbolized the strange, diabolic resistance movement that flourished beneath the surface of official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than the passion for sainthood. She could only sigh with stoic disenchantment: "What hope can there be. for one who is neither worthy of heaven nor of hell?" This line sums up perfectly...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, writing in yesterday' New York Times Magazine, defined liberal as one who "believes that society can and should be improved" by applying "human intelligence to social and economic problems...