Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty which "Power" presents. After a plodding, unceasing rise to power, the Jew Suss learns that he is not really Hebraic, his father having been a prominent Christian soldier. This discovery does not break his resolve, and to the bitter end, through a mass of trials enough to overwhelm any but the superhuman, Suss holds to his adopted race. His predominance has become too great and in a final scene of haunting beauty he is sacrificed to the restless demand for vengeance upon the oppressors of the people...
...have for three years been tripping a light trail about the globe living a happy, though rather vacuous existence and gaining their daily champagne by virtue of Jerry's ability to sell hypothetical gold mines and other sleight of hand. Just when their accumulated hangovers and debts begin to overwhelm them Jerry receives a letter from his brother-in-law asking him for his brother-in-law's love for the child, the guardianship of Jerry's child by a former marriage. Thinking to profit by Jerry returns to America and plans to sell him the child. However, he abandons...
...cyclical" depressions. The decline of capitalism is the result of old age. Its "historical role" is over. This is owing to the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion"-industrial expansion, creation of new industries, opening up of new land. Stagnation has set in. The forces of production overwhelm the forces of consumption. Demand and supply, profits and wages clash. The "contradiction" arises from the fact that the system lives on profits; to insure profits wages must be cut; to cut wages diminishes consumption. When production is restricted, whether by State intervention or through lack of markets, capitalism goes...
...collision of two goods--or of two forces actuated by the best of motives. Such as the tragedy of Vienna; for the Heimwehr can hardly be held responsible for its actions. For them it is a case of crush the Socialists or perish when Germany feels strong enough to overwhelm Austria; if Dolifuss is able to unite his country behind him, his chances of resisting Germany will, of course, be enormously improved. But they will still be so dubious that he will have no alternative but to seek aid abroad...
...outpourings of these pessimists; the thoughtful are challenged to sober reflection. History, especially current history--witness Russia, and Central Europe for example--is weighted heavily in favor of the pessimist. What can education say in answer? Nothing with certainty, that is, nothing which the pessimist, can not overwhelm with contradictory evidence. The pessimist looks into the past and is fortified, the educator in the final analysis must rest his case on the future and the hope that history need not always repeat itself. Suppose then, that the pessimist convinces the world that he is right--what then shall the educator...