Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communism, Theologian Bennett concludes, which began as a moral protest against social injustice, has turned into a tyranny because it has no transcendent faith to preserve it from idolatry, and no real understanding of the meaning of personal freedom. And all this was largely "because Christians did not see until too late the revolutionary demands in their own faith...
Worship is a Christian's most important activity, says the statement, but social action comes second; and politics is social action's effective form. But the Christian is not aiming at a mere Marxian dream of material welfare; he desires "the maximum opportunity for the development of individual personalities...
...solution to the problem, if this is the problem. He believes that Northern Negroes and civil-rights defenders who, in attacking segregation, also attack complaisant Negroes as "handkerchief heads" and "Uncle Toms," are merely being reckless. But, says Cohn, if Mississippi whites were sure that Negroes would accept social segregation, they might be much more inclined to give them every other kind of equality (in voting, schooling, jobs). He thinks they should...
...Princess will startle readers who think of James, the expatriate, as the man who was saddened because his own U.S. had "no sovereign, no court, no aristocracy . . . nor manors, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins." It is a novel of explicit social significance, about London's anarchist workers and their starry-eyed aristocratic sympathizers. Columbia Professor Lionel Trilling, in a 15,000-word introduction to The Princess, credits James with "a first-rate rendering of literal social reality." But the reader will probably feel that for all James's intentions, his poor are specimens under-glass, people...
Hyacinth, who has secretly sworn to carry out the assassination of the duke, begins to have his doubts about the wisdom of destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...