Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House sent to the White House a social security bill that raises the benefits for 12 million people by 7%. Included in the bill: tax increases for 75 million workers so as to put social security on a pay-as-you-go basis...
...like Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, which has opened its clubhouse to 320 weddings so far this year, scout around for parties, conventions and tournaments, anything to make a dollar. Even some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens, we do not know this to be officially true...
Lolita is a major work of fiction; it is also a shocking book. Prefaced by a fictitious academic fathead who presents it as a message to "parents, social workers, [and] educators," the book describes the transcontinental debauch of a twelve-year-old girl by a middle-aged monomaniac. As it turns out, the narrator is writing his apologia from a prison cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about...
...Gaulle's new constitution begins with words from the constitution of the old Fourth Republic: "France is a Republic, indivisible, secular, democratic and social." It continues with the echoing phrase, "of the people, by the people, for the people." Minister of Justice Michel Debré, who had a big hand in writing the new constitution, denies that De Gaulle opposes a democratic Parliament. Says he: "French democracy threatened to perish because Parliament was also the government, the administration, and even sought to administer justice. The role of a Parliament is not to govern. It is to vote laws...
...Wall Crumbles. In shoring up segregation, Author Dabbs suggests, the South is committing itself to another lost cause-that "of keeping a changeless social order in a changing world." Even while the South frets, fumes and fights its delaying actions, the wall of segregation is crumbling, Author Dabbs believes, under the assault of four powerful forces: 1) the law, 2) industrialization (the machine "knows nothing about the Negro's place"), 3) the democratic spirit, 4) the Christian tradition...