Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only exception to this rule against team projects was the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, a large undertaking leading to three books so far--How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes, by Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles and Clyde Kluckhohn, the Berliner volume, and Mark G. Field's Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia--and numerous articles. In this study, carried on in co-operation with the United States Air Force, a team of twenty interviewers spent nearly a year in Munich collecting material from former Soviet citizens who had fled the U.S.S.R. The results...
...committee on cultural exchange, which included Rosenblum, proposed that America vigorously encourage an exchange of people from all social strata, not just students and politicians, to emphasize the essential similarities of the two national groups and to dispel distrust of their superficial differences...
Director Helmut Kautner has taken Karl Zuchmayer's biting leftist script and toned it down, both in political implication and in social description. As the movie proceeds one can see the effect which could have resulted from the blending of abject misery with bitter humor. There are flashes of what must have been really fine pathos on older, flickering, brownish black-and-white film. Blind street singers grind out a Weill-ish ballad, one playing a hand organ, the other tapping a drum with sticks taped to his elbows. A dying consumptive girl cries out in fear of the whiteness...
What a Federal aid program would mean to the educational standards, "no one is wise enough to foresee." For instance, until a few years ago, certain social science courses might have been forced on the students, if the government had been in control. Today, advanced math and science courses could become high school requirements, Conant says...
...should be explored. For instance, where "true doubles" (rooms containing a living room and two study-bedrooms) exist side by side, five men can live comfortably by using one of the living rooms as a study bedroom (thus achieving a "true triple") and the other living room for social purposes. Or three men can arrange a "true triple" out of two adjoining single suites. The possibilities for achieving the kind of group privacy realized by Quincy House's four-man suites seems virtually limitless...