Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol for the social event of the day-a buffet luncheon with the Senate-he seemed as delighted as a football star back for a college reunion...
Frankie Waldron, with his wavy brown hair, his snappy clothes and his electric smile, was as handsome as a junior Arrow Collar Man. Frankie's family was far from well-to-do, but Frankie danced and wisecracked his way into Franklin High School's social upper crust. He was manager of the basketball team, manager of the senior play, and a passionate, if reedy-voiced, star of the debating team. Just about everybody who knew him in Seattle back in 1923 predicted that Frankie Waldron would...
...Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father went stony broke...
...Reporter's editor, publisher and financial angel is scholarly, Italian-born Max Ascoli, 50, whose opposition to Mussolini, while teaching political philosophy at an Italian university, forced him to leave Italy for the U.S. in 1931. Ascoli has since taught at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, recently wrote a book of political philosophy, The Power of Freedom...
...acquired no facilities for arriving at judgments social or artistic and he is apparently without religion of any kind." His sister Mary is no better, nor are his parents. They, too, are adolescent, "not free men and women but base mechanicals . . . the products and patrons of mass management ... of a standardized press and radio, of slick magazines and book clubs, of an overly vocationalized education, of pressure salesmanship...