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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...economic world of the author. In the very choice of the "factors remaining equal" lies social philosophy. Quesnay and eighteenth-century France, Adam Smith and British industrial supremacy, Keynes and stagnation, are inseparably intertwined. Like political science, economic theory cannot be torn out of its historical context without losing substance...
More important is Biographer White's reappraisal of Shelley as a mind. By bringing together a mass of 19th-Century critical opinion, Author White shows that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context, Author White highlights Shelley's real meaning for our time. In a day when the same old exaltation of the masses, the same revolutionary terror and dictatorship, have culminated in World War II, the family line from Marat to Lenin to Mussolini to Hitler is revealed as passing through...
...first attempts a description of the separated inseparable, of happiness out of its context and synthesized in an isolated form in the same manner as existence in a moment might be isolated from the stream of day by day. The second, in spite of its title is not about a person, but about a person, two people, as they represent an idea: the struggle of the imaginary and the real. This is dealt with at length by John Finch in the same magazine--his second paragraph to be exact. Finally, the third poem deals with reflections and meditations...
...title of his first lecture tonight at 8 o'clock in Harvard Hall, Room 1, is "The Race Against Time". On October 16 the subject will be "The Social Context of Radio", and lectures on subsequent Wednesday evenings will deal with systems of control of radio, relation of the radio industry to government, psychology of radio, propaganda, the problem of controversy, and radio in education...
Bishop Lawrence states in his letter that this editorial was "based on an unverified report of a newspaper which taking a few lines out of their context in an address was entirely misleading. Hence your editorial was misleading. It never occurred to me to think or say that this country should enter...