Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cavalry general stationed in Berlin, he grew up there, got the best schooling to be had in Germany, at the Französisches Gymnasium of Berlin, and in 1900, aged 19, became a lieutenant in the Royal Elizabeth Guard Grenadiers. The Grenadiers wore corsets and led a gay social life; Lieutenant Brauchitsch, whose nature was somewhat more vigorous, persuaded his father to get him transferred to an artillery regiment. By 1914 he had risen to the rank of captain. Throughout the four years of World War I he remained a General Staff officer, saw no fighting. In 1918 he shared...
...Sometimes they were a social-conscious emetic like Philip Evergood's painting of a walkathon in which it was hard to tell the epicene men from the epicene women staggering in various stages of rawly colored collapse...
...Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches." This is the basic thesis of Atoms In Action* published this week by George Russell Harrison, California-born professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "In the long run," says he, "digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting, but more profitable, than digging for gold. If urged on by the love of digging, one digs deeper than if searching for some particular nugget. Practicality is inevitably shortsighted, and is self-handicapped...
Some students, having the post-war reconstruction of the social order in the back of their minds, will think it best to concentrate in the social sciences. They reason that a man trained in the theory of government or in the history of socialism will be the Johnnie-on-the-spot. And if these students move into History or Government or Economics for no other reason than this, they will greatly delude themselves...
Furthermore, from a strictly utilitarian point of view, it is disadvantageous to move into these already overcrowded fields. The history of concentration fields shows that in periods of social or economic stress, such as the last ten years, students stampede into the social sciences. This recent stampede has led to overcrowded courses, insufficient tutorial staffs, and insufficient departmental budgets in the social sciences. For the University's funds are pigeon-holed; they cannot be shifted at will...