Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something wrong, there is always a temptation to do something about it. Over 20% of the population has had some attack of tuberculosis and recovered without knowing it. If they had been X-rayed at a particular time, some small sign would have shown up and all their social contacts might have been disturbed . . . Moreover, mass examinations give a false sense of security . . . mass examinations cannot be accurate...
...with his Manhattan misfortunes "over the dam," Conductor Barbirolli says, "I'm on top of the world." He likes Manchester: "There is not much social life. It gives you time to work." He concentrates on young people, tries to convince them "that it's jazz that's sissy and the real he-man stuff is Beethoven and Bach." One-third of his audiences are 18 or under. Says Barbirolli: "If Frank Sinatra can have his bobby-sox brigade...
...American. It is casual to the point of slightness, a bit snobbish and of little historical importance. But it brings the speech of the time and the look of town & country to the reader in a way historians rarely do. Hamilton was contemptuous .of "aggrandized upstarts" who put on social airs, and he frankly looked down on anyone who was not a "gentleman." He loved good company, drank with relish but not to excess (the capacity of New York City's "toapers" astonished and disgusted him), and never missed a pretty face or a stayless figure. If anyone could...
...housed than the refugees." Even so, she found them "a miserable-looking lot wearing broken shoes and remnants of worn-out uniforms, Yugoslav, British or Greek. The prisoners looked like the poorest and stupidest of peasants with nothing to hope for and nothing to lose under any social system...
Chinese Communists are not winning because of communism but because they are taking advantage of a social change he added. I don't think we can save the status quo by supporting Chiang's government. America must develop a positive policy toward China and compete with communism...