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...best form of economic planning in a free society is on the New Deal-Fair Deal model, with emphasis on fiscal and budgetary policy rather than on direct physical controls; and (3) that contemporary democratic socialism, recognizing the political perils in total centralization, is renouncing the classical socialist pattern in favor of the New Deal formula...
...Coplon gave the Republicans more wallop than they had before. The headline-catching feints of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy (see below), even if he hadn't landed any hard blows, were not making it any easier. Five speech-writing aides were put to work preparing the pattern of the President's countertactics...
...further destroying the conventional pattern of home life...
...Ideal Pattern. When Australian-born Gilbert Murray entered St. John's College, Oxford, in the 1880s, the great Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato and Master of Balliol College, was one of the most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...
Murray had other interests besides ancient literature. In classical Greece he saw the ideal pattern for the skeptical humanism which guided his own active political life. In party politics Murray was a Liberal, stumped unsuccessfully for Parliament three times. He backed Lloyd George's social reforms, wrote a book commending the policies of Britain's World War I Foreign Secretary, Liberal Sir Edward Grey...