Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Social Relations will continue to provide compulsory tutorial for all Juniors this year, chairman Robert W. White announced yesterday...
...present, inevitably, the proponents of the mode, the counter-mode, the eclat-du-jour, whatever it might be. There would be a mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most everything. Feininger invariably survived the tempest as one of the few who indeed justified it. Those interested parties among us who eagerly engage the democratic process in support...
...Radcliffe social season will continue with a jolly-up tonight at Moors Hall. There will be five more in the current series, which will last until late October. The others...
Until recently, said Secretary Anderson, the Government has been able to sell huge amounts of its securities to Government trust funds such as Social Security old-age and unemployment-compensation funds. "Over the past ten years," he said, "these funds added $20 billion to their holdings of Government securities as their reserves accumulated. Currently, however, the flow is being reversed; benefits and other payments are exceeding receipts, and there will be a decline in holdings this year." Now that the Government trust funds are reducing their holdings, Secretary Anderson said that the nation's private savings institutions should take...
Golden Ghetto. Opposed to the no-goodniks are the do-gooders, who, according to the Lederer-Burdick ideal, live at the native level, stay outside the Americans' "ingrown social life," also known as S.I.G.G. (Social Incest in the Golden Ghetto), never shop at the PX, work with their hands, and do winsome things like playing the harmonica. Among the best of these is "the ugly American" of the title, a big, homely engineering genius full of bright, simple, technical ideas that the overambitious Asians want no part of. Like most of the "good" Americans in the book...