Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Families. "Amidst the most damaging aberrations of modern pagans is the opinion of those who define fecundity as a social evil." Enumerating the blessings of having many children, the Pope added: "No sooner are the happy pilgrimages to the baptismal font ended than the bright series of first communions and confirmations begins, and when the smallest brother puts away his first-communion suit, out comes the family's first nuptial veil, bringing together before the altar the parents, all the children, and the delight of new in-laws...
Religion. "To draw a line of separation between religion and life, between the supernatural and the natural, between the church and the world, as though they had no relation to each other, as though the rights of God were not valid within the whole realm of human and social life, this is manifestly un-Christian...
Fact is that even on Broadway, Stevens finds little time for social elbow-bending. "If I only knew more of these actors," says he wistfully. "If I had time to get to all their cocktail parties, I'd be a helluva lot better off. I find theater people a lot more fun than real estate people...
Threefold Increase. Along with the development of biochemistry, medicine has sparked the speedup of a new science, gerontology. Properly the study of aging in all living things, and involving social as well as medical sciences, it has focused most sharply on the aging human since 1903, when Elie Metchnikoff suggested in The Nature of Man that "this science may be called gerontology" (from the Greek geron, an old man). In 1909 Internist Ignatz L. Nascher coined the word geriatrics (from geras, old age, and iatreia, cure) for the medical care of the old. Geriatrics has grown as a sub-specialty...
...Spartan Stuff. To prepare for the oldsters whose sheer numbers will revolutionize not only the practice of medicine but also the world's social, political and economic structure, gerontologists turn both to their test tubes and to individuals like Amos Alonzo Stagg. From him and the men on nearby rungs of time's ladder they hope to learn what are the common denominators in longevity-and, more especially, in useful longevity. For they subscribe to the motto: "Not just to add years to life, but to add life to years...