Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood has never been notable for its success in reflecting major social changes. This study of a minor one is no exception to the rule. The story of Cafe Society is the familiar one of a reporter (Fred MacMurray) who marries an heiress (Madeleine Carroll). It achieves the almost incredible distinction of libeling its subject...
...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
...Charlotte, N.C., heading South, was a team composed of comely Miss Ila Sircar, associate general secretary of the Student Christian Movement in India; Dr. P. C. Hsu, University of Shanghai professor; Dr. Gonzalo Baez Camargo, Mexican Methodist leader. In Detroit, heading West, were Miss Minnie Soga, Bantu social worker in South Africa; Dr. Rajah Bhushinam Manikam, Lutheran secretary of India's National Christian Council; Dr. Hachiro Yuasa, "Christian Pacifist," onetime president of Japan's Doshisha University...
...kind in the U. S. it was founded ten years ago by two bright Yale deans, Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Law School (now University of Chicago's president) and Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz of the Medical School (now retired). They decided that physical scientists and social scientists working together might start a new science of human relations whereby man could learn to be happier and on better terms with his fellows...
...theory was based on Sigmund Freud's frustration-aggression hypothesis, i.e., whenever an individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists proceeded to apply this theory to social as well as individual behavior. With it they sought to explain strikes, suicides, race prejudice, reformism, lynching, satire, crime, the reading of detective stories, wife-beating, war. They hoped the explanations would provide a formula for predicting and guiding the behavior of social groups...