Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Most ambitious exhibit was a twelve-foot-square model of a mythical community called "Broadacres." "A new housing for civilization," Broadacres is Wright's answer to the problem of the crowded machine-age city. In Broadacres, homes, factories, office and municipal buildings are separated by wide park spaces planted with lawns and trees. Its farms rub elbows with its town hall. Its warehouses are part of its underground railway system...
...perennial problem for grownups is how to tell the children. Last week produced two lively ways of telling the children: a new book on sex, and an animated cartoon on tuberculosis...
...economic disaster and fascism at home the only alternative to whole-hog intervention? It is, if we attempt to struggle on as we have done, trying to bolster up a capitalistic system which is running down. But there is another alternative. Boldly and fearlessly we can grapple with the problem of giving Americans--all Americans--jobs and an adequate living standard. This does not mean half-baked public spending programs sabotaged by "lack of confidence." It means taking the vast productive machinery of this country out of the hands of the Girdlers and Fords, and putting it to work...
Charles Siepmann has curtailed two of the four remaining lectures in his informal radio workshop course because of other conflicting lectures on Wednesday night. On November 20 his lecture will deal with propaganda and the problem of controversy and, November 27, on the place of broadcasting in education...
...making the announcement of the Student council library plans, Marvin said, "The Student Council has spent considerable attention to the problem created by the discussion in the newspapers and within the College of the apparent difference in point of view about the European War between the older graduates and the present student body. Natural variations of opinion have been largely overemphasized or exaggerated. In a democracy we understand ourselves free to enjoy to the fullest a period of discussion, exchange of opinion, and even of sincere debate which shall in no way compromise the inevitable unity of purpose...