Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department delivered a stinging lecture on democracy: "Persons under the juris diction of the United States cannot be arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned or interfered with." The note made clear that the U.S. shares and supports "the hopes of the Cuban people for the achievement of social justice." It ended with the hope that Cuba would review its "policy and attitude." Bad Timing. Castro's President dismissed the U.S. charges as "unfounded," leaving relations as bad as ever, and at a dangerous time for Cuba. As the State Department is anxiously aware, anti-Castro sentiment is growing in Congress, which...
...setting for characters who speak stilted blank verse (with Hamlet echoes) and live amid the topical excitement of another decade. Playhouse go (CBS) chose to grapple with second-rate Shaw, and even an excellent cast-Robert Morley, Claire Bloom, Siobhan McKenna-could not cram the rapid-fire sex and social relations of Misalliance into a really meaningful hour and a half...
...most valuable fields of concentration at Princeton. If the School acted merely to coordinate courses for its "members," it might be criticized as disunified. But the Conference and the senior seminar draw together (the various disciplines), and students presumably gain at least preliminary acquaintance with the tools of the social sciences. And, significantly, they "learn by doing," by applying these several disciplines to important public problems...
Like the undergraduate school, the graduate division does not "attempt a survey of the various social sciences. Rather, it selects from each of these fields that knowledge and those technical and conceptual tools and methods of analysis which have proved useful in helping to sort out, analyze, and perhaps solve problems of the sort with which men in public affairs are likely to be called upon to deal...
...developed certain specific goals: (1) a high degree of proficiency in necessary fields of economic analysis; (2) an understanding of the basic institutions in this and other societies, and historical changes in these institutions; (3) an awareness of the fact that public problems involve a complex of elements--social, political, technological, legal, and administrative; (4) an appreciation of the nature of administrative and political processes, their significance in the formulation and execution of policy, and the importance of ethical values in human relations; and (5) a high degree of proficiency in one of the established social science areas...