Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...address to the Social Relations Society, Bauer stated that this concern has its roots in "the perpetual hope and horror that man will invent means of controlling and manipulating man." Even in the thirties psychologists and psychiatrists were taking the place of witches and devils in demonology...
...single-rent system would help eliminate "social segregation" and a "terrible administrative snarl in the Houses," a high official in the Administration said yesterday. But such a plan, he added, would have to overcome "the wide spectrum of room desirability," a built-in feature of our housing...
...monthly magazine, Shop, was published. This was designed to reflect "serious thinking at Radcliffe, chiefly in connection with courses, but also in regard to important questions of the day, political, social, and artistic." It contained about two or three essays in each issue, with such titles as "The Concept of Personality," and "A Comparison of the Political Theories of Dante and Machiavelli." Shop only lasted a year; its demise was owed either to a lack of cash or perhaps of serious thinking...
John O'Hara is perhaps the U.S.'s chief social embalmer of manners and morals among the moneyed. His latest novel is a massive pyramid of prose raised over the mummified form of a minor Pharoah of finance named Alfred Eaton. As if by ancient Egyptian custom, Eaton's living tomb is stocked with the appurtenances of his caste and class: tennis rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes, partnership in a Wall Street banking house, two wives, two mistresses...
...Hara virtues and all the defects of those virtues. His ear for dialogue has never been truer, but when page after page of unselective trivia has been set down, the reader finds himself aching for an earplug. O'Hara continues to describe the nuances of social habit with rare authority in a society in which social flux continuously alters the symbols of prestige. But the snobbism of the right prep school, the right club, the right street in the right exurb becomes so intrusive that Terrace often reads like a gigantic menu...