Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightening up on loans, etc. Mayor James Morgan, popular with businessmen, in office since 1937, is privately telling friends that he intends to resign next year - "I used to enjoy going to the City Hall. I don't any more." Housewives who profess moderation run the risk of social ostracism. White ministers, asked to help improve communications between the races, reply only with general ities. Says one moderate: "It isn't enough that you are in favor of segregation. You've got to say so out loud or you're suspected of being on the other...
MICHIGAN. Says Assistant Dean Robert G. Lovell: the University of Michigan does not particularly care what a student's major is, will admit social science and humanities majors as readily as premed majors if they meet science requirements...
...from their interest in the liberal arts for fear of being rejected at medical school without a premedical major." Surprise of the study: at Harvard Medical School, premed-prepared students do better the first year, but by the third year they fall slightly behind students who majored in the social sciences...
M.I.T.'s surge toward scientific eminence was begun by President (1930-48) Karl Compton. Under Killian and Right-Hand Man Stratton a new reform was pushed through: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to the status of the institute's other professional schools. At 57, Physicist "J" Stratton is well qualified to understand the importance of the humanities; after he graduated from M.I.T., he made the grand tour, spent much of his time studying French literature at the Universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T...
...sanctity of every man's soul under God. It is a novel in praise of the continuity of life, which for Pasternak means resurrection. It is, finally, a novel dedicated to the primacy of the individual and his private life in defiance of superstates, of groupthink, of social and ideological regimentation. If this is a devastating indictment of the essence of Communism, it is by implication equally critical of much that is currently lodged in Western habits of thought; for the book flatly pits the individual against "adjustment to the group," the soul's need against economic need...