Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most," she agreed. "The way our social set-up is set up it is hard for people to have the right attitude for a happy, full life. They don't have the right spiritual conditions for existence...
...after which the constitutional talks could be resumed. An extension of Britain's role in the territory beyond 1960 also seems inevitable, if there is to be any guarantee that irresponsible elements are not to dominate the Federation. The only conclusion which is consistent both with the economic and social advance of the territory and with the aspirations of the population, is to permit Nyasaland to become an African state within the Federation...
Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...
...accufately, that you could divert people by telling them Shakespeare is fun), the unlimited variations of his theme became apparent. Professors began to restrict their bitter little jokes, and perhaps with an eye to a later surrender, conceded that the medium's effects on the populace was worthy of social study...
Defending such traditions as the high table and the wearing of academic robes to all classes, Laslett called these customs "the key to the strength of the English university system." By behaving "as if the social order hasn't changed, the British have kept the Welfare State from extinguishing the English university...