Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following letter was written on March 14, 1948, by a student at Charles University, a man in his mid-twenties, who is doing advanced work in both English and Russian. He is a Social Democrat. His father, who is a carpenter in a village twenty-five miles from Prague, is a National Socialist. I pass this letter on, not as the whole story in Czechoslovakia, but as a characteristic student opinion. F. O. Matthiessen...
...will be perfectly frank: we have gone through a new social revolution; we have given up a good deal of democracy and individual freedom. But we have retained enough freedom for everybody to live and work either happily or contentedly, according to one's political views. And we have retained enough democracy for our state to leave it a possibility of developing into a new, more righteous and more moral democracy. We have learned in these days to look at things with harshly realistic eyes. By an uncontrolled terrible strength ensuing from the contrast of two opposite world ideologies...
After a week of listless debate, the Senate passed the bill, 58 to 22. That left it up to the House, which was not so likely to change its mind: in view of foreign aid, military expenses and tax relief, majority leaders there were opposed to new spending for social legislation...
Morbid Ways & Mortgages. Toiling at the side of this unruffled paragon of sociological purpose, Beatrice-who could herself outwork and outlecture most social workers of the era-felt feebly feminine and small, "a mere dilettante." After hours of involved research into feudal economy, say, Beatrice would be ashamed to find that her head ached and she had to lie down-while Sidney indefatigably continued to probe the intricacies of mortgage and land-tenure. But he was wonderfully sympathic and never impatient...
...articles on "Religious Opinions at College," a big subject, but evidently not too big for this magazine. Alexander Stewart, a Harvard student of the Class of 1948, goes ahead merrily and analyzes "Religion at Radcliffe," dividing everyone into four types, the most interesting of which is the "fast-moving social clique," where "religion is conspicuous by its absence." Nancy Sadler's article is more intelligent but no less glib in its assumptions; but far from being an analysis, it is a plea for religion that involves the setting up of her own psycho-philosophical system...