Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the people. They wrote their messages into some of the best plays the American theater has seen. From 1935 to 1937, plays like "Bury the Dead," "Waiting for Lefty," "Dead End," and "Winterset" dealt with the problems of war, labor strife, and crime. The evils existing under our capitalist economy were by far the most popular targets...
...call Western Union." Shows like "Finian's Rainbow" and "The Respectful Prostitute" continue to draw because their messages are sugar coated with music, comedy, and good old-fashioned sex. The point is that theatrical producers did, and occasionally still do, present plays critical of the vices arising from a capitalist system, while Hollywood never has and probably never will...
...superior ideas are essential to the conquest and overthrow of superficial ones, then the new "Capitalist Manifesto" [TIME, Feb. 13] ... ought to be required reading for everyone, from the foreman and union steward on up to the policy-making committees. Organized labor resents the injustices of our present economic system, and expresses its dislike in strikes . . . Unless these work stoppages . . . can be dealt with through such democratic processes as joint consultations and open forum discussions, our nation will be deprived of the fruits of an expanding economy which it has every right to expect in view of past progress...
...with the transportation workers so incensed over their misery that they are about to strike in protest, and without even an adequate water supply. This would indeed be a condemning picture for a socialist capital. The picture is, of course, of our own New York City, capital of the capitalist world...
...discarded . . . Even if men are well fed, clothed and housed, it will not be enough . . . [Man] must feel that he is more than an automaton, a cog in a machine." In these forceful phrases last week, 48 business, labor and religious leaders issued what might well be called a Capitalist Manifesto...