Word: towards
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Germans, who have never shown any talent for democracy, are today corroded by 16 years' dictatorship, war and defeat. They have probably made greater progress toward democracy than the U.S. had a right to expect on V-E day; the many political-action groups which have sprung up all over West Germany, and the high turnout (nearly 80% of the eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous...
...Christian Democrats' official program contains some welfare state features; Adenauer himself has often said that capitalism must assume "social responsibility." Actually t his party's attitude toward labor is still undefined. Many of West Germany's industrialists, who generally support Adenauer, do not like the innovations-profit-sharing plans, management-labor councils-which the military government introduced. Sighed one union leader last week: "Capitalists in the U.S. are so much more farsighted in their labor relations than our bosses...
...along now for some time on the theory that education consists simply of experience and change and 'growth,' and this theory has not... furthered the millennium to any startling degree. Perhaps we need to set up some ends for education; perhaps we need to ask, 'Growth toward what...
...Luce suggested profit-sharing and laws "in the direction of social justice" as a start toward bringing capitalism more in line with Christian ethics, but warned against the trend to "statism...
...recent discussions of the Harvard football situation, it has been completely forgotten that the College's athletic program must orient itself towards the major aims of the educational process. Now there is not doubt that sports, even though played mainly for relaxation and exercise, can contribute toward instilling the attitudes and mental skills approved by "general education." We are endlessly bombarded with pretty sentiments about how contact with teammates develops the players discipline, self-confidence and a number of other social traits--all very true and very important. Still we should no overlook the fact that athletics provide a creative...