C e m joad biography of donald

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() UK philosopher, broadcaster and author, a senior civil servant during World War One, and thus exempt from service. His public loucheness and transgressive atheism, as well as a sustained advocacy of free love, enliven much of his nonfiction, including his two contributions to the To-day and To-morrow series [for titles see Checklist below] and in The Dictator Resigns (), where his advocacy of free birth control and abortion, though couched on Eugenic lines, is still refreshing.

C e m joad biography of donald Joad was at the height of his fame as a member of the 'Brains Trust' - probably the most celebrated of all radio programmes at a time when there was virtually no television - but had found himself in trouble for persistently travelling without a railway ticket. References [ edit ]. Robert Owen, Idealist , Fabian Tract no. However, the Conservative Party complained about his "socialistic" answers.

His fiction was infrequent, but his abiding cast of mind is conspicuously manifested in Priscilla and Charybdis and Other Stories (coll ), the title story of which features the seduction of a young matron by a hairy flâneur who claims to be the Reincarnation of Pan (see Sex). His last work of fiction, The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (), much augmented by Mervyn Peake's illustrations, fairly closely homages his old mentor George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (), recording the Candide-like explorations of its protagonist (see Voltaire), who engages in disquisitions with a series of allegorically-named figures, each describing versions of Utopia; in one of these, set in a clearly Near Future world, minds are controlled centrally by radio; elsewhere, the future of Communism is expounded by a Robot.

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see also:To-day and To-morrow.

Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad

born Durham, County Durham: 12 August

died London: 9 April

works (highly selected)

nonfiction

• Diogenes; Or, the Future of Leisure (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, ) [nonfiction: chap: in the publisher's To-day and To-morrow series: hb/nonpictorial]
• Thrasymachus; Or, the Future of Morals (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, ) [nonfiction: chap: in the publisher's To-day and To-morrow series: hb/nonpictorial]
• The Dictator Resigns (London: Methuen and Company, ) [nonfiction: hb/]

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