Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members are Lucy Busselle of Everett House and Princeton, N.J., concentrating in History and Literature; Mrs. Ruth Ellen Gahm of Cambridge, in Social Relations, and Stephanie Lang of Holmes Hall and Chappaqua, N.Y., in History and Literature...
...first time in its 59-year history, the National Institute of Social Sciences awarded one man a second gold medal, last week hailed 84-year-old ex-President Herbert Hoover, as it had in 1918, for "distinguished service to humanity."*Cracked a proud, beaming Hoover: "Your presentation after this 40-year interval should be construed by those who come after me as a certificate of the propriety of my conduct when on this earth...
...strait jacket"). Oscar warmly congratulated Paar-"You have the most responsive audience since Adolf Hitler in the good old days"-offered capsule analyses of a few colleagues. Eddie and Liz: "How high can you stoop?" Elsa Maxwell: "The oldest woman still subsisting on a scholarship." Zsa Zsa Gabor: "Does social work among the rich." As for himself, lamented Levant: "They asked me to be on This Is Your Life, but they couldn't find one friend...
...Adams, grubbing in the archives of the State Department to research his historical work, Marian and her salon had the tonic appeal of the latter-day businessman's double martini before dinner. After Marian's suicide, grief-stricken Henry Adams drastically curtailed his social activities, often spoke of his own death as coinciding with Marian's. Author Samuels believes that Adams oversentimentalized his tragedy, but points out that extravagant mourning was a 19th century fashion-Queen Victoria had the dead Albert's evening clothes laid out daily before dinner; the poet Rossetti buried all his unpublished...
Robert F. Bales, professor of Social Relations and an expert on group dynamics, said he would emphasize the background and personalities of the students, rather than their sexes, in evaluating the type of group organization preferable. However, he noted that in Social Sciences 112, "Human Relations," "hetrogeneity is preferred in discussion groups because the existence of different perspectives leads to interesting discussions...