Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built-in stabilizers of the U.S. economy have become stronger and more effective. Unemployment benefits have been widely extended, and payments have doubled since 1954 to $5 billion annually; the unemployed in some states now draw up to $60 a week. Gains have been made in old-age benefits, social security, retirement programs, and aid to the needy. Even more important, the U.S. economy has grown so huge and so diversified that a slump in one section, as in autos, can be largely counteracted by a rise in another, such as the $3.1 billion rise in farm income during...
...record of Orwell's social immolation is still fascinating reading today, not only for the great clarity with which Orwell describes an appalling landscape-with-figures but for the honesty with which he argues with himself about it all. That rare creature, a bitter man with no self-pity, Orwell writes in a style beside which today's Angry Young Men sound like a party of petulant pixies...
...municipal garbage dump. Orwell lived in rooms that smelled "like a ferret's cage" and ate unmentionable meals at tables under which there was sometimes a full chamber pot. Even Louis-Ferdinand Céline's vomitive delineation of the Paris slums could not bring more repulsive social maggots into focus than those fixed by Orwell's baleful lens. He went down the wet, dripping, insecure coal mines on the heels of the naked miners-the comparatively fortunate who still had jobs. His picture of the unemployed miners and their wives scrambling for coal on the slag...
...Britain, and he wore it with the same mixture of pain and pride as the Blessed John Ogilvie, a Jesuit missionary, might have shown toward the halter with which he was hanged at Glasgow (1615), not far north of (nor so very long before) Orwell's social researches...
...debt and (in his view) shackled by snobbery. He invited them to descend with him into the nether regions of the "working class where we belong," for, says he, "we have nothing to lose but our aitches." The British middle classes, however, have stubbornly continued to cling to their social aspirations and their aspirates. Class war may be 'ell. but the better-bred Briton has decided to huff it out on his own side of the phonetic fence...