Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having thus presented an unbroken, if slightly mottled, front to the world, the members trooped into the White House state dining room for luncheon. The occasion was to be strictly social; they were to meet the President and Cabinet and quietly absorb 32 pounds of smelt which an American Legion post had just sent from the State of Washington's Cowlitz River...
...establish forthwith a Council of Western Europe consisting of representatives of the governments of the sixteen participating countries in the European Recovery Plan, and Western Germany, to lay down the broad lines of common action. The council should have power to set up permanent international staffs to coordinate the social, economic and defense policies...
What follows is frequently even more terrifying. The pathetic figure of the lecturer in the course cowers in its appropriate academic corner, and the Head Monitor (Head) takes over. "Attendance starts today," it warns. Then it launches into a list of the Social Cases: "Rows C through G for Radcliffe; graduates can sit in the rear; auditors fill in the spaces at the sides; and (New This Term) there's a special left-handed row in the right front corner. If you're hard of hearing see me after class...
...liberal, I wish to express my shock and resentment at the attitudes expressed by Professor Matthiessen and Geoffrey White concerning the death of Jan Masaryk. To millions of democrats the suicide of one of the greatest fighters for social and political freedom in the face of a tragic and reactionary revolution holds lessons neither Professor Matthiessen nor Mr. White would share. In death, Masaryk symbolizes the disillusionment of a non-Communist progressive who sincerely and honestly attempted to work with Communists, and whose despair at a future without liberty for the Czech people could find no more eloquent protest than...
House Committees, Council, Union Committee, CRIMSON, WHRV, Band, Glee Club, Debate Council, Phillips Brooks House, College Social Affairs Committee, ten College teams, and four other interested groups. In addition, five "senior Associates" and the head cheerleader will serve on the group...