Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enough Flexibility. Although no two experts could wholly agree on detailed programs, no observer could doubt that ten years of depression had given the U. S. the greatest sociological education in its history. Incorporated into its Government were basic social laws no one of which could have been calmly argued or dreamed of by the dejected empiricists of 1929. Incorporated into its thought was an acceptance of social reform, no matter how hotly disputed were particular reform measures. Accepted by its major parties were the basic evolutionary changes represented by social security laws, trade union legislation, relief, social welfare-although...
Ownership of land and the individualism which it produces were described by Professor Jones as characteristic of the American spirit in history and literature. His listeners then debated the influence of industrialism and modern insecurity on these basic elements...
...attitude towards the art has crawled out of the precarious position it occupied during the nineteenth century, a position between the pit of conservative morality and the pendulum of progressive realism, certain fundamental questions are still unanswered. We find ourselves still confronted with the time-worn, but nevertheless basic, problems. Shall we accept brutal, brazen phases of the world as art on a par with the more pleasant and morally pure aspects of our existence? Is there any difference between the moral and the immoral, the good and the evil, in the realm of art? in short, is an ugly...
Today, however, the basic reason for the founding of the Coop has disappeared. Harvard square merchants have fully realized that to cater to the student trade they must truly serve that clientele. Thus, prices have been reduced to standard levels, and the student is no longer penalized. In fact he stands to gain in two ways because of the foundation of the Coop...
Fiene embodies some of the controlled but outspoken realism of the elder Breughel, sixteenth century Flemish master. In Breughel's work, we see the underlying and basic connection of man with nature. His men and women are integral parts of the landscape; humanity is just as deeply rooted in the earth as a massive rock or a tree. Fiene speaks much in the same manner. His men are on a par with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem...