Word: sinclairism
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...defender of private business interests, and only extreme New Dealers dared attack it. An early FDA bill calling for identification of product contents during commercial breaks was killed because of the fear of lost advertising revenue. Radio-style advertising became recognized as a determinant of public opinion; when Upton Sinclair threatened to ride into the California governorship with his wealth-sharing EPIC plan, Albert Lasker, first NBC advertising counsel, was called to Hollywood to aid in his defeat. It was no surprise, then, that the Wagner-Hatfield proposal, which called for guaranteed educational control of 25 per cent...
...Utopian ventures of the early and mid-19th century?from Indiana's New Harmony on the Wabash River to Massachusetts' famed Brook Farm?eventually foundered, and Twin Oaks, too, has its problems. The major one appears to be financial. "Skinner never wrote about a poor community," laments Gabe Sinclair. "He wrote about a rich one." After starting with only $35,000, Twin Oaks, four years later, still finds survival a struggle. The farm brings more emotional than monetary rewards; members would find it cheaper to work at other jobs and buy their food at the market. The community's chief...
Fish Stew. One of Midland's leading anti-reactor crusaders, Mrs. William Sinclair, nonetheless remains concerned that accidents in the plant might cause the release of dangerous radioactivity. "This is the first nuclear power plant of this size placed close to a large industrial and population center," she says. "We don't want to delay the plant, just study public-interest issues. Yet I'm now everybody's favorite villain." Last week, although it is the AEC's technical and procedural difficulties-not environmental opposition-that is causing the trouble, protesters littered Mrs. Sinclair...
...publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created a wide U.S. audience for such writers as Faulkner, O'Neill, John O'Hara and Sinclair Lewis...
...organizing Chicago's "Back of the Yards" neighborhood (Upton Sinclair's Jungle ) in the late '30? and more recently, in organizing the black ghetto of Woodlawn in Chicago, the ghetto of Rochester, N. Y., Chicano groups in Southern California, or Indians in Canada. Alinsky and the staff of his Industrial Areas Foundation have worked repeatedly for the same ends. His commitment is to "a free and open society." a society based on values like "freedom, equality, justice, peace," "a deep concern for the preciousness of human life" and the right to dissent: a society where people will realize that "morality...