Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotels, caterers, dance orchestras, and social secretaries who conduct New York's $3,000,000-a-year debutante trade knew that debuts were not what they used to be. Parents no longer built special ballrooms on their country estates, or spent $10,000 for decorations, or hired 50-piece orchestras, or gutted Broadway's flossiest nightclubs for entertainment. Nowadays, a debutante might be charged as little as $1,000 for a dinner, $6,000 for a supper dance...
...propaganda has, on the face of it, a high and beneficent purpose: to favor good farming practices. A similar erosion scare in the 19305 did result in widespread adoption of erosion-control practices. Some of the clear implications of the present scare, however, give unintended comfort to political and social policies that are anything but beneficent. If even rich nations like the U.S. have, too little land to keep their people passably well fed (as some of the doom-criers try to prove), then what should they do? The answer, for any vigorous people, is obvious. Go out and grab...
...Social Conscience Needed...
...Fear is a discarded crutch, and social conscience must take its place," he said, adding that "in the final analysis, character determines sexual behavior...
...trio of speakers is expected to discuss the implications of the "Kinsey Report" from the viewpoints of their own fields, as well as other recent critiques of the problem, which is now recognized by most authorities as one of the most pressing in our social structure...