Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a spirit of sweet reasonableness that was news in itself, these diverse-and often dissident-interests agreed that when, as in the past, "each one of the various groups tended to concentrate on their own interests . . . [they] tended to paralyze each other rather than to utilize each other." Two...
*"The fact that in 1918 the German nation, led astray by the lying words of the United States President [Wilson], believed it could hasten the end by a voluntary armistice not only drove Germany into the deepest disaster but was responsible for the present war."-Adolf Hitler in his 1944...
They do not regard membership in cooperatives as synonymous with "collectivism" or "socialism." To them, it is the voluntary "integration" of the individual with the community, something that might be called "nonisolated individualism" as contrasted with "rugged individualism." Waring & Teller believe in reading books, and they swear particularly by the...
Voluntary student-faculty agreements replace rules of curriculum and conduct. Typical agreement: boys and girls stay out of one another's bedrooms except to visit the sick. Another: on entering the Senior Division, each student contracts with the faculty to do a certain scholastic job (reading, laboratory, thesis) chosen...
Explained the Tribune, whose Managing Editor William Steven worked in the Office of Censorship until several months ago: "[We] allowed this story to 'go the course' to see how long it would take to get clearance. . . . There is NO provision in the Code of Voluntary Wartime Censorship . . . which...