Lloyd George had launched this country "into the broad stream of social betterment and social security along which all modern parties now steer".
But while Hansberry's play ended on a note of tempered optimism, Ms. Hall (the young author of "The Mountaintop," seen on Broadway earlier this season) suggests that, for many African-Americans, that promise of social betterment has never been fulfilled.
Some choices enlarged the scope of social betterment.
"The discerning reader can then evaluate for themselves what Scientology is doing in the world and perhaps get some insight into the challenges we undertake to help people and communities with our social betterment programs".
He decried "individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America" who "take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries".
Another marvelous detail from the IGRA: It sternly provides that all profits from Indian casino operations must go for the social betterment of the tribe-e.g., for schooling, housing, roads, sanitation.
In 2012, Will Hutton argued that the political right across the west was "giving up on the Enlightenment" and in doing so rejecting "tolerance, reason, democratic argument, progress and the drive for social betterment as cornerstones of society".
Such techniques to quantify intelligence aligned perfectly with an interventionist approach to social betterment, thanks to Charles Benedict Davenport, head of the Eugenics Record Office.
It's not an indictment of Obama to observe that philanthropy, in this context, is effectively the opposite of reparations: it's money given voluntarily for social betterment, not issued as recompense for a wrong.
Also, India has a long-standing tradition of business largesse, with many companies committed to social betterment through philanthropic giving and investment in infrastructure near their facilities.
