Word: personalization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Endicott Peabody, 83, retired as headmaster of Groton. Last week Rosemary Hall celebrated its 50th anniversary. Between those two events there was more than a timely connection. Like swank Groton, Rosemary Hall, a swank girls' school in leafy Greenwich, Conn., has been ruled from its beginning by one person. And like Groton's Peabody, Rosemary's Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece) is in a class by herself among U. S. headmistresses...
...second important phrase of the Act states: "Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to require any person to be subject to combatant training and service in the land or naval forces of the United States who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to war in any form." [Sec. 5 (g)]. There are two significant phrases in this passage. The first, "by reason of religious training and belief," is ambiguous. Can anyone be sure what origins of "training and belief" are at the bottom of his most sincere and fundamental convictions? According to informed opinion...
...Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 contains two redeeming features for the liberally-minded person opposed to the complete slavery of the individual to the state who will have to fill out his questionnaire within the next few weeks. In the first place, it was passed by representatives of the people purely as a measure of defense for the United States, and therefore the following clause was inserted: "Persons inducted into the land forces of the United States under this Act shall not be employed beyond the limits of the Western Hemisphere except in the Territories and possessions...
Maritain is pessimistic about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic, but would frighten good bourgeois citizens...
Even a suave butler, in the person of famed Arthur Treacher of Hollywood, succumbs somewhat to the prevailing laxities. Although managing to maintain a certain propriety through an attempted seduction by Jitterbug Dancer Betty Hutton, when she cautions him "You can't take it with you," Butler Treacher unbends sufficiently to reply: "It wouldn't be very safe to leave it around here, either...