Word: label
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...brings back from Europe, the native continent of socialism, two contrasted impressions. Parties with the socialist or labor label are in political control of Norway, Sweden and Denmark and are strong partners in coalition governments in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Labor Party is Her Majesty's Opposition in Great Britain, and its chances of coming into power are about fifty-fifty. The Social Democrats are the strongest single party in opposition to Chancellor Adenauer. But socialism as a secular faith, possessed of a set of infallible principles capable of curing all the ills of the economic order...
...great and gloomy Dane, Soren Kierkegaard, has turned up in many strange guises. The philosophy of the once-obscure 19th century theologian has been abused to label everything from "existentialist" hairdos to literature, and his troubled probings of Man, God and Infinity have inspired a modern philosophical fad as well as the "crisis theology" of contemporary Protestantism. Last week Kierkegaard appeared in music. His musical interpreter: U.S. Composer Samuel Barber, 44, who studied Kierkegaard for a decade, and made him the subject of his first major composition in four years...
...less than profound analysis of world events. Thus, I reluctantly admit there are scientists whose great accomplishments have given some of their views an undeserved weight in public matters . . . What kind of "rugged Americanism" is it which judges any man's rationality on any subject by the label he happens to wear...
Many a U.S. manufacturer of sewing machines, ceramics or textiles turns purple when he sees imitations of his wares with a "Made in Japan" label. But last week two top Administration spokesmen told some 2,000 businessmen at the 41st National Foreign Trade Convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria that the "Made in Japan" label should appear far oftener in U.S. stores...
...record, Voice of the Sea, is the latest product of a Stamford, Conn, sound engineer, Emory Cook, who got into the record business with an equally unusual record of chiming music boxes, built his label (Sounds of Our Times) up to the point where he is now releasing full-scale symphony LPs, has other record executives keeping a slightly envious eye on him. Cook's market remains mostly "audiophiles," who shiver in ecstasy over a tingling triangle while hardly noticing whether the music is a symphony or a psalm. But the number of listeners who look for realism...