Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard farmer-cowman battleground. Black Rock is unusually homogeneous, "consumed with apathy," until the appearance of the outsider threatens the power elite and probes the town's collective guilty conscience. The suspension of disbelief called for is somewhat greater than usual, owing to the improbable economic and social set-up of the town, population circa twelve, all of whom sport neuroses of one sort or other. One day's exposure to the hero is all the therapy they need to set them straight, however, while he seems also to have undergone Rebirth by the time he rides out of town...
...Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked him away in what was to become the Ministry of Education. There he hammered through the Education Act of 1944 with the slogan, "Education is the spearhead of social reform," giving all British children for the first time the assurance of education...
Though no friend of the welfare state ("Socialism has so battened down the hatches that the passengers have forgotten how to breathe"), he was the philosopher of more enlightened conservatism, which he developed in a series of able party pamphlets. He threw his support behind social security, gave needed protection to individuals facing tribunals, fought for aliens' right to live permanently in Britain, has been the champion of an up-to-date censorship law. After Suez, when Harold Macmillan was chosen instead of him to succeed Eden at 10 Downing Street, Butler remarked: "Well, it is something to have...
...into which you can move. That kind of art is at a low ebb. Ages ago, artists were in demand to make images of a people's God. The artist was a necessity, even though he might have been a slave. His work status was high, but his social status was low. Today the artist has a higher social status, but fewer jobs...
Aparajito (Indian). The second part-the first was Pather Panchali-of a trilogy, made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes. The completed trilogy promises to be one of the greatest movies ever made...