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...closed by saying Roosevelt's actions were hardly revolutionary in scope...
...largely omitted; except for a digression on the extent of the country's natural resources and a sketchy resume of the Five Year Plan, the book keeps pretty closely to the "human relations' side of it, in many ways resembling very strikingly Ella Winter's "Red Virtue." It scope ranges from anecdotes of peasant life and collective struggles through a discussion of morality, prostitution, art, jails, the army and other points to a travelogue of Siberia and an essay on world revolution...
...possible that in this instance the father might learn from the son. The broad surveys in English, history, philosophy and science, whether required for mental discipline or to give intellectual scope, should be included in a uniform freshman curriculum. Such a step would not only benefit the concentration plan, but would disseminate as early as possible those blessings claimed for survey courses, and leave later college years less troubled by cramping loose ends and regulations...
...There are rooms in the Union; (2) They are on the third floor, not in the attic, kitchen, or cellar; (3) They are handsome, spacious, and airy and have a commanding view, which is not only beautiful but is useful as well, in that it includes in its scope three large, accurate tower-clocks; (4) To live in them is to live as in a club--a floor below are ping-pong tables, library, and for the Merrimaniacs a History Reading Room. Two floors below are dining room, radio, fireplace, magazines, newspapers, piano, and demi-tasses. Three floors down...
...Strachey, who analyzed the political evolution of the British in "The Coming Struggle for Power," has here extended his scope to an examination of the bases upon which Fascism and its success in Europe rest. For him the Fascist movement is, wholly and unequivocally, an attempt to preserve Capitalism by violence. To support this view, he has outlined once more the lines along which the class struggle is waged, through "the century of the great hope" to the present period of frustration and despair. It is his thesis that the progressive parties, Labour in England and the Social Democrats...