Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also among the top five fields of Concentration this year are Social Relations, with 507 undergraduates; English, 394; and History...
...report to the trustees this week, President Dodds deplored what he called "a flight from the humanities." Twenty-five years ago, 44% of Princeton students were registered in the humanities; now the proportion is only about half that (24%). A good many of the students now concentrating on political, social and economic problems would do better, he said, to mine some of "our rich resources in the humanities . . ." "Undergraduates, like most of us, are subject to fads," President Dodds added...
Died. Genevieve Taggard, 53, much-anthologized poetess (For Eager Lovers, Calling Western Union) and biographer (The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson); of uremia; in Manhattan. Miss Taggard scored an early success with slight lyrics, later slipped when she tried to weight her verses with social significance...
...Gotta Stay Happy (Rampart; Universal-International) is a harmless and mildly entertaining little movie-unless it is butterfly-broken on the wheel of Social Significance. * It has lost none of its gloss in translation from a slick-magazine serial to the screen. Smoothly mounted, directed and acted, it is a pat little story about a painfully earnest flyer (James Stewart) who is running his small-time airline straight into bankruptcy. Then he takes aboard a runaway millionheiress (Joan Fontaine...
Contemporary man, awed by the beady eye of the child psychologist and the social worker, finds the most respectable Victorian blood far too bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...