Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this ambitious program been launched last week by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it might well have caused an international sensation. It was, however, merely another evidence of the social-mindedness of his articulate wife whose latest book* was published to coincide with the New Year...
...star was Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who made a great success last season in Wycherley's scandalous Country Wife. She plays Nora in .4 Doll's House as a childlike, skipping chucklehead, a unique individual rather than the social type Ibsen meant her to symbolize, thus helps transform the play from an outmoded indictment into a moving character study. As Nora's complacent spouse, Dennis King, hero of operettas, farces and romantic dramas, plays Ibsen as well as he sings Lehar and Friml. For all of Torvald's prissy traits, Actor King makes him pitiable...
...long been the victim of two middle-aged tyrants, called parents by facetious sociologists and naive maiden aunts, who are cruelly solicitous for the health of his molars as well as the cyst beneath his right shoulder blade. These two, who conceal their despotism under a jacket of social charm and kindness (so that all but himself considers them as unusually fine specimens of humanity), ruffled their feathers in immediate response to the Vagabond's scheme of adventure. No, they said in one grave and discreet voice, it would be too dangerous; he might even be killed. No, it would...
...syringitis, szopelka, ectopia? You don't have to answer; I will put down "no" to each. Have you ever felt dizzy; have you ever swooned, fainted, lost consciousness? No, the doctor said; and he wrote "no". Have you had any bone injuries, major operations, children's diseases, diseases, or social diseases? No, he said; and he wrote...
Unlike any other man's college in the U. S., Harvard has no organized social life. It has no Carnival like Dartmouth, no House-Party Week-end like Princeton. The average crop-haired Harvard youth will probably tell you with great condescension that this is due to Harvard's vast indifference to such carryings-on. Don't believe it. The reason for Harvard's unique social existence is that it lies but eight minutes by subway from Boston, a city with a notable absence of night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream...