Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope your article will serve to sweep away the outmoded conception of the diplomat clothed in spats and top hat, fruitlessly whiling away his time at social get-togethers. The Foreign Service officer is a dedicated and hard-working individual...
What discrimination there was seemed mainly social. Rooming houses openly proclaimed "No colored." Hotels were "full" to Negro applicants. Restaurants often refused to serve them, some pubs segregated Negroes in one room, whites in another. Dance halls all over the Midlands would quietly bar any Negro who did not bring his own partner. Said a ballroom manager: "We're not against them, we just don't want any trouble...
...receipts to investors. His enterprise had no legal existence, was known simply by the title of "Bankers Anonymous." (In the Italian business vocabulary, "anonymous" means "unincorporated".) Two winters ago, Giuffrè formed a limited company called ACOFI to engage in "industrial and commercial activities ... to bring about a new social order in Italy firmly based on the teachings of the church." Among his partners: Dr. Enrico Vinci, president of Italy's National Catholic Action Youth Movement and the Catholic Action's regional vice president in Romagna...
...success, where the status is very seldom quo. Most of them live in Manhattan or commute to its skyscraper hives, for that is where the honey is. But somehow their lives, loves and labors leave the cuprous taste of pennies in their mouths; the middle-income bracket is their social vise. Few writers have probed the masked anxieties of the "have-not-enoughs" with the skill and authority of John (The Wapshot Chronicle) Cheever, 46. After Marquand, he is the ablest chronicler of the interior life of the organization...
...blue lace girdle turns up among the lost-and-found items of an all-night country club bacchanal. The funniest and possibly the best story in the book is called The Sorrows of Gin. Amy, a grave sub-teen-ager senses vaguely that the border between heavy social drinking and semi-alcoholism is a thin line over which her parents keep falling. A cook gives the youngster the idea that she would be doing everyone a favor by pouring an occasional bottle of liquor down the drain. This policy reaches a hilarious climax one night when Amy's father...