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“With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time.”

Political Force Social Understanding Powerful Our Lives Drama Shapes Fortune Novelists Our Time Historian Toms Captured Chronicles Great Political

Author:Ronald Steel

“Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.”

Social Space Effects Design Color Materials Shapes Psychological Volume Technological Requirements Integration

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.”

Men Body Reality Social Conditions Events Truth Is Shapes News Function Social Conditions

Author:Walter Lippmann

“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”

“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .”

Literature Social Answers Deals Attention Practice Objects Theory Needed Shapes Criticism Genre Aesthetic Bent Systematic Anatomy Literary Theory Literary Genre

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.”

Firsts Social Modern Shapes Understood Direct Wings Workers International Libertarian Aspiration Great Work Alliances Bosoms Continuation

Book:Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.”

Mean War States Social Term Military Type Cost Shapes Destruction Function Productions Readiness Drained Just War Cost Of War

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.”

Ifs Men Needs School Political Social Education Attitude Democracy Shapes Capable Critical Doctrine

Author:Albert Einstein

“The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.”

People Giving Political Faith Energy Nations Social Church Common Economic Inspire Shapes Institutions Various Adequate Time And Energy Common Life

Book:On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society

Source: On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society