Word: collectivist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which has become a staple of the U.S. businessman's library. In it, he de fended the philosophy as well as the operating efficiency of U.S. capitalism. But he also lamented that most businessmen are so preoccupied with production schedules that they leave the intellectual market to their collectivist enemies. Said Randall: "With brick and mortar and stainless steel we are the greatest builders the world has ever seen, but our daring and confidence seem to leave us when we walk out of the plant into the realm of ideas...
Niebuhr attacks the frequent clerical fallacy that under socialism "motives of service" would supplant the "profit motive." That idea "invested a collectivist system with a moral sanction it did not deserve . . . The so-called 'profit motive' can hardly be eliminated under any system . . . Every parson who speaks grandly about supplanting [it] exemplifies it when he moves to a new charge because the old one did not give him ... a salary adequate for his growing family...
Vintage Vintner. In Italian Swiss Colony, Petri got one of the oldest vintage winemakers in the U.S. Founded in 1881 by Genoa-born Andrea Sbarbaro as a collectivist colony modeled after the cooperative theories of John Ruskin and Robert Owen, Italian Swiss Colony's skilled winemakers gained a reputation for fine dry wines. Although it still makes dry table wines, the bulk of Italian Swiss Colony's output is now sweet dessert wines, which are easier to make, and appeal more to American palates...
Harris: Not as long as that word is defined as it was in those days [meaning] collectivist philosophy even as applied in convents and monasteries...
...Voice's French section after she had written a favorable review of Whittaker Chambers' Witness. Also, she related, on her very first day in the section. Acting Chief Troup Mathews called her to his office and "told me his primary interest was in setting up collectivist groups." McCarthy interrupted her with a warning that "many children are watching this program." Later the committee released a transcript of Nancy's nonpublic testimony. Mathews, she testified, had told her that in the group all children would be brought up communally, and asked her if she would join: "I said...