Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to live out to do so. But there are reasons, such as privacy and avoidance of beer-party fraternizing or the need for seclusion. For some there is the need to escape the routine of trekking back and forth from the dining hall and bothering with the social amenities in order to manage serious academic accomplishment in their last two years. And some men just want to feel less like a college boy and more like an individual. This feeling is not without parallel in the Harvard tradition...
...which these elements have previously appeared (Column B).* Column A Column B 1. Mother slaves away all day to support her family, even renting out rooms in the big old house, while improvident father boozes. a. The Glass Menagerie 2. Mother clutches about her the fading rags of her social pretensions. b. Picnic 3. Father really loves his children, but he can't communicate with them, can't get through to them. c. Look Homeward, Angel 4. Beautiful young girl has trouble deciding whether to marry for money or sex. d. Death of a Salesman...
...police staff has noted the times and locations of the House dances planned for the coming weekends. These affairs will come under police surveillance, as the maintenance of peace and quiet throughout the coming weekends extends to social functions as well as to traffic problems...
...easily be staggering. Doctors' and nurses' fees, extended treatment or psychiatric care will impose expenses that can burden a family with immense debts. In addition, poor risks, like old people, are not covered under private insurance plans, and local or state clinic facilities are necessarily limited. Modern standards of social responsibility, however, seem to indicate that the right of any citizen to needed medical treatment should be guaranteed...
Financing state insurance would not be excessively expensive. To cover about the same scope as the Social Security System one would probably require an additional payroll tax of about four per cent. Split between employer and employee this is a moderate premium. Present private or factory medical policies, just like current private retirement policies, could continue to exist collaterally...