Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fair felt that House-oriented Reunions indicated the increasing influence the upperclass dwellings exerted on College life. "The Houses are playing a more and more important role in the academic and social organization of the University," he said...
...lesson in appeasement to heed in Berlin now, and cuttingly recalled that because the Soviet Union had failed to honor the freedom of religion, press, speech and voting promised in the 1945 Potsdam agreement, "some 2,000,000 Germans have left East Germany rather than endure any longer the social system which exists there...
...archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature son or daughter. What is maturity? "It is the ability to see a job through, to give more than is asked for or required in any given situation . . . dependability . . . independence of thought and action . . . the capacity to cooperate...
...danger of becoming a nation of watchers instead of doers"). He has been married for 33 years, lives a Spartan life in which he drinks little (a few Scotches now and then), eats little (no desserts, frequent salads and sandwiches), sleeps little (average: six hours), generally avoids social contacts with company people-and, for that matter, with just about everyone but his own family (four married daughters, ten grandchildren...
...ability to make another man feel like an ignorant peasant was thought to be an inborn talent of the aristocracy. Nowadays, anyone can learn the trick, and there is no better instructor than Britain's Stephen Potter, a kind of arsenical Dale Carnegie and master planner of social insecurity...