Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Women for Humphrey (neighborhood coffee parties, etc.). She has been mistaken at times for Mamie Eisenhower (who once told her: "How nice and well-behaved your bangs are"), puts politics second to keeping her family (four children, aged ten to 20) together, says: "You can't be a social butterfly and a good mother...
...cabaret girls; young men in search of kicks favor the nude shows that flourish all over town. To compete with the cabarets, the geishas have taken up such desperate sidelines as juggling and playing the xylophone-a far cry from the haughty geishas who were the quietly indispensable social companions of the rich and powerful...
...Stick. At first, the nationalists appeared to accept the contracts. Frondizi in turn went out of his way to be nice to Peronistas, granting them amnesty, restoring confiscated property, allowing them to hold control of the labor movement under a plan drawn up by his Economic and ' Social Affairs Secretary, Rogelio Frigerio. A few rumbles came from within the Radical Party, notably from Frondizi's Vice President. Alejandro Gomez, but they sounded minor...
Politically, CELAM will favor "flexible" democracy rather than the authoritarian governments it once preferred. It will support welfare programs to attract workers. Said one prelate: "The church in Latin America has awakened to the fact that Christian sociology is not incompatible with a great number of modern social concepts. The church believes in narrowing the gap between classes. There will always be rich and poor, but they need not be so far apart as they are in Latin America...
Ironically, it is the most repellent qualities of the Clubs that give the system this advantage. Their snobbishness, their secrecy, their uncreativity, their preoccupation with an isolated social world all tend to dissuade most undergraduates from any any wish to join. Dean Bender, in the same breath as he criticizes the Clubs for "narrowness," feverently hopes "that the Clubs never start getting democratic." If the Clubs were to elect people on a basis of creative merit, he points out, then undergraduates might really begin to care about joining. The Clubs would become a generally recognized elite, and the punching season...