Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost 100 years ago, Karl Marx predicted that the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals and big businesses would speed up the decay of the competitive free-enterprise system. Ever since, many Americans who never read Marx and who believe firmly in the free-enterprise system have feared that the same thing might happen. Last week a man who should know tried to lay that fear to rest. He is Economist A.D.H. Kaplan, who spent seven years studying big business for the Brookings Institution and who published his findings last week in a new book...
...first time, to examine microscopically the interiors of such small living organisms as fruit flies and germinating seeds. It will aid the study of the internal fine structure of metals, paints, plastics and other materials. In medicine, it will enable pathologists to study small-scale ailments such as tooth decay and hardening of the arteries...
...main highway which runs through the sleepy South Carolina town of Orangeburg are the weathered buildings of the state's Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College. They are old buildings, belonging for the most part to generations long past. An air of decay pervades the 50 acre, unkempt campus. It is a decay bred from apathy-apathy of the State Legislature, of the board of trustees, of the 1300 or so students who know they are getting an education that is second-rate. It springs from a college president who, though obsequious to the all-white board of trustees...
Lost in the spell of decay, few members of the fantastically inbred faculty will fight the system. For they remember one who did. Lewis K. McMillan, exprofessor of History, was fired for writing a book, "Negro Higher Education in the State of South Carolina," which exposed the system for what...
Apachefied Dickens. Born in 1894, Cèline as an adult became a doctor in the Paris slums, a perfect apprenticeship for a writer who saw everything in terms of filth, corruption and decay. Two novels, boiling with ferocious vitality and humor, Death on the Installment Plan (TIME, Aug. 29, 1938) and Journey to the End of the Night (TIME, April 30, 1934), established Cèline's literary reputation; but World War II, in which he became a vigorous Nazi collaborator, made him a social pariah, who had to run for his life after the Liberation...