Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abolish the Paupers. Elder Statesman Alcide de Gasperi talked the new line: "We must transform our party into an instrument fit for the times.'' Of Italy's 11.5 million families, he said, 1,375,000 could be called "paupers," 1,345,000 more are underprivileged, and only 1,274,000 have a "high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however...
...flourishing economy where the economy is in the hands of the state . . . Certain Catholics should stop toying with the idea of a spurious Marxism ... I just can't understand those Catholics who would eliminate the social classes in order to enhance their social figure and who would transform a justified limited state intervention into downright economic and political state monopoly just for the sake of having a society that has no economic differences...
Imperial experience has taught the British a lot. Britain now believes that an agile balance of concede and conserve can transform a restless empire into a friendly commonwealth. The process makes the British empire hard to define because, as British Historian Eric Walker wrote: "It is the rearward portion of a procession, a large part of which has long since crossed the flood that divided dependence from autonomy, and part is crossing...
...Transforming Minds. In 1944 Pusey went back to Appleton as president of Lawrence College. By that time he had come to the conclusion that a whole dimension was missing from U.S. education. Like his old Professor Irving Babbitt, he felt that "too many modern teachers commit the error of teaching students to see the evils and shortcomings of society without at the same time pointing out the evils that exist in them [selves]." The purpose of liberal education was not merely to impart knowledge; it was also to "transform personality by transforming minds ... But they [cannot be] transformed ... by materials...
Says Dawson: "The [medieval world] was always at grips with the problem of barbarism. It had to face the external threat of alien and hostile cultures, while at the same time it was in conflict with barbaric elements within its own social environment which it had to control and transform. And in this work it could not rely on the existence of common standards of civilization or common moral values. It had to create its own moral order before it could achieve an ordered form of civilized existence...