Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1948, members of this group purchased the Brattle Theatre from the Cambridge Social Union and staged its subsequent productions there. Upon graduation, they formed the Brattle Theatre Company, a professional repertory group that achieved national renown. Unfortunately, it was forced to disband in 1952 owing to an accumulated $35,000 deficit...
Amid the bombast of demagogues and the protests of mothers, some potential moderates are hoping to translate the integration battle into a more general social conflict. Vague fears and noisy rhetoric have identified the desegregation process with other ideological issues, for men who otherwise would have gracefully acquiesced. Thus certain natives of border states, having quietly accepted integration in their own communities, devote themselves to their neighbors' resistance efforts...
...grapple with a symbolic embodiment of pervasive evil. They find in the idea of a Communist conspiracy a suitable devil, responsible for the sins of their no-longer Jeffersonian world. States' rights form a barrier against political manifestations of this insidious movement, and traditional values become weapons against social sabotage. Integration, upsetting custom, supported by left-wingers, and enforced by centralizied national power, seems an instrument of the alien interest...
...berth at Leverett House (where he eventually became assistant senior tutor), he stayed and finished his thesis under Oscar Handlin (by this time his field was colonial America). During these years he assisted Handlin with History 166 and History 163, and this year he gives "occasional lectures" in the Social History course...
...shame if the maps they buy get blown overboard from their cruiser. Louis manoeuvres himself into the position of being able to sell the men 50 copies of each map, should they desire. But of course Louis meets a girl, a girl who despite her great wealth and social advantage manages to show him sympathy because he is quite unlike anyone she has met before. Straining against their destinies--his to own a dozen sullen Manhattan towers by denial of himself, hers to marry the man she went to college to catch--they move to a furious climax where...