Word: view
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comment upon the letter of Professor J. A. McLaughlin appearing in your columns today? It annoys me from several points of view. Isn't it the boast of Harvard's staff that "we teach our students to think for themselves"? Then why be snippy when actually...
...onions, having plowed through difficult statistical jobs with NRA, WPA, U. S. Department of Labor, etc. These two, with three assistants, were set up in N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming pool, view of the Hudson. Handed to them was a stack of raw material: statistics on the purchases of 60,000 U. S. families, collected by white-collar WPAsters...
Parkes demonstrates that by 1914 the working class had almost universally developed a tradeunion, not a revolutionary, point of view; that the stronger the union movement became, the less revolutionary were its purposes; that the proletariat's size was reduced by machinery, its miseries by reform. Seeing all this, Lenin did not deduce that Marx had been wrong. Instead he formed the Communist Party to lead the working class, not to what it seemed to want but to what Marx had decided it ought to want. And to win the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to diverge from Marxism again...
...Since Big Business, in the Parkesian view, tends to restrict production and employment instead of cutting prices, and since 50 years of trust-busting have shown the impossibility of making them stay busted, another course becomes appropriate: "If a job in corporate industry constituted a property right . . . industrial managers would normally find it profitable to keep their workers fully occupied," thus expanding production, lowering prices. Parkes argues that workers would give up a fixed wage if they were free to choose their industries, guaranteed (within limits) a job, and if wages varied suitably with corporate profits...
...researches found that Lawrence's materials came not only from his constantly anguished experience but from a whole raft of undigested philosophy, anthropology, occultism. The fashionable gibber of Madame Blavatsky from Tibet, the yoga writings of one Pryse ("All I say is Om," said Lawrence), the Bergsonian view that all was flux, the Freudian unconscious, the Jungian libido, many studies of primitive culture were all skimmed by Lawrence for his private religion. By the time he got to Susan, says Scholar Tindall with no particular depth, deep called to deep...