Word: equals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including economic) organization. The abundance of material things -the bales of cotton, bushels of corn, ingots of steel-is a byproduct of these three primary riches, not the take from a geographic roulette wheel or the hoard of materialist greed. Today's drive of the U.S. Negro toward equality is as strong as any social tide in Asia or Africa or Europe. At the centers of those other drives for change stand agitators, conspirators, men of violence. The strength and flexibility of the U.S. Constitution make possible the fact that the man at the vortex of the Negro issue...
...under the regime of Eastern Europe. However, from [respected novelists] to the intellectual "mandarins"' of the Left Bank, a majority of French writers have returned from the U.S. with severe, if not cruel, reports. An America which was our ally, but with a power that was supposedly equal to ours, was a friend to us. An America which is too strong provokes withdrawal and suspicion...
Rantys & Dhyantys. Jaunswar women who live with their several husbands are called rantys. Custom obliges them to treat each husband with equal favor, but it often happens that a ranty will prefer one brother to all the others. It also happens that a ranty will reject the whole pack of brothers for an outsider. After trial by the entire village, an adulterous ranty is fined the cost of a community dinner (paid for by her parents), after which her husbands may have her back, readily forgiving and forgetting because women are so scarce...
Peering through the bars at Author Hodgkinson's caged semantic monsters, the reader will find such strange animals as the Marxist breed of equality (ravenstvo). "'By equality Marxism means, not equalization of individual requirements and individual life, but the abolition of classes,' said Stalin to the 17th Party Congress (1934)." And so on for a page of valuable documentation of George Orwell's porcine commissar whose classic formula was: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Similarly, Author Hodgkinson has fun with the word peace (mir) and the bellicose roarings...
...Equal Among Equals. Without authority, Molnar argues, the intellectual can no longer impose his values on others, cannot play his "traditional role of detached analyst, creator and critic of ideas . . . For the intellectual is now considered only one part of society-an equal among equals-and is not thought of as an ambassador from the Land of Truth. He is expected to serve society, not to change it ... If he is tolerated at all, it is only when he shifts his allegiance from disinterested truth to community endeavor...