Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this instance, the milieu is Jewish. But Schulman, though a Jew, has presented it with restraint: he was under no illusions of producing a "social drama," and he avoided the easy temptation of exaggerating the Jewish elements. Yet he shows a keen ear for Jewish speech; and has, without falling into mawkishness, captured just the right amount of protective close-knittedness so characteristic of Jewish family life...
...organized force of a community," wrote the Navy's Mahan, "is and must remain the basis of social order so long as evil exists to be repressed." The admiral and his men might even rerun it into a new definition of the t)ld Navy quip that had loomed so large in the long and notable service of Admiral James Lemuel Holloway. That new definition, which was also a new challenge: Do you fight the cold war the -hard way, i.e., by letting things slide into a shooting war, or the Holloway, i.e., by deploying adequate power to stop...
...Barbara Frances Wootton, 61, economist, former professor of social studies at the University of London, and the only Socialist...
...lift 140 lbs., and that so many applicants wanted laborers' jobs that the city has no plans to hold any more examinations for two years. For weak-backed or stubbornly intellectual students, there was one note of cheer: if they studied long enough to become a psychiatric social service worker, they could eventually earn more ($525 a month) than the city's laborers, although they would have to start lower...
...Miller notes that most of the faults in the American system of religious pluralism are "closely related to the merits of the free society. They remain problems because they are linked to the very nature of freedom." Pragmatism, relativism, drives against dissent, the churches' preoccupation with social reform instead of spiritual matters-all have their good side; in each case, "the fault is the overextension of virtue...