Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill is right [TIME, Feb. 2]. The world is at a crucial point in the evolutionary process. We have here and now to resolve the question as to whether the world social organism shall advance toward closer integration along the lines of individual freedom and intelligent self-determination, which is democracy, or within a matrix of "scientific" and coercive direction by a political elite, which is world Communism...
Less Medal-Pinning. Though the appointment had been in the works for weeks, most Britons were taken somewhat by surprise. Sir Oliver and his wife are so little inclined to the social side of diplomacy that an acquaintance once remarked of their infrequent parties: "One always has to break the ice-and when one does, one finds a lot of very cold water underneath...
...Queen of Lithuanian Day at the Chicago World's Fair. When her mother and stepfather moved to a farm near Lowell, Ind., Eva slipped easily into the affairs of the town high school. By the time she was graduated in 1935, she was president of the Red Pepper Social Club and had acquired the highest of adolescent accolades-she was a "popular girl...
...children of pity accepted Marx's indictment of capitalism's evils, but they did not want to substitute the greater evil of his proletarian dictatorship. They were the backbone (if backbone it had) of Social Democracy. They were perhaps best epitomized by Sidney Webb, later Lord Passfield. He and his wife Beatrice loved the bicycle, and untiringly cycled about the business of their Fabian Society; once they pedaled 40 miles to Cardiff to attend a trade union congress. They believed not in the inevitability of revolution but in the "inevitability of gradualness," i.e., in a steady bicycle ride...
Last spring, Social Democrat Katayama had traded away most of his socialist principles to win the support of conservatives for his coalition. However, Shigeru Yoshida, ultra-conservative Liberal party leader, pulled out. Hitoshi Ashida, head of the conservative Democrats, gave only grudging cooperation, pushed easygoing Katayama along an economic path more conservative than socialist. Within his own party, Katayama steadily lost support...