Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot be founded on negatives: on fear or some temporary alignment . . . Man, even in his work, does not live by bread alone . . . His nature is not wholly filled or expressed in the production and consumption of bread and beer and radio sets and patent medicines. He has not his answer or his end in these. They cannot ease his discontent...
...give man in the machine age his answer and his end, capitalism must go and get itself a conscience. The moral revolution for which McGuire calls must be led by the U.S. He believes that America must render the services which Britain rendered the world during the 19th Century: "... What will the Americans get out of this? They will get the burdens and the privileges of world leadership . . . the losses, profits, kicks . . . They may also, if they manage well, get world order...
...that they have the atom bomb, a lot of Americans talk boldly about what they will do to the Russians. But the Americans didn't approve when Germany fought the same battle. This, too, you can answer, but it takes more time...
Last week Newsman Steele and his colleagues had an answer. The Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. All foreign newsmen were ordered to "cease . . . collection of news and dispatching of news telegrams." In the drab, drafty Peking Club, the correspondents met and voted to stay on, at least until they were sure the ban was permanent...
Next Friday afternoon Norman Thomas, Socialist Party candidate for President in the last election, will meet HLU members in another informal discussion. Thomas will talk about American socialism and liberalism and answer questions on the subject. Later in the evening he will address the Law School Forum on government regulation of the national economy...