Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social utility" may well motivate the U.S. religious boom, wrote the Rev. Andrew Greeley of Chicago in the Roman Catholic magazine The Sign. "But it is at least possible that within the outer froth of religiosity there is an inner core of authentic religion hardened by the firmness of Divine Grace ... If intelligent Catholics stand apart from it in disdain, they may run the risk of putting themselves in the same class as those fastidious Italian noblemen who wondered how any good could possibly come from the Poor Man of Assisi and his ragamuffin band of followers...
...serving as a needed ballast for the whole economy, April's rate for wage and salary disbursements had still dipped to a worrisome low of $232 billion, down $6.1 billion from 1957. In June the figure climbed back up. The total: up $3.3 billion to $235.3 billion. If Social Security and veterans' payments, which hit new records this spring, are counted in, total personal income for June, at $351.8 billion, was appreciably ahead of 1957's level of $347.9 billion...
What it meant to the economy was that the moneyed U.S. farmer was fast becoming a pillar of strength, buying and consuming with rare power to pick up the slack from other social groups. To many a businessman, the strongest market of 1958 is the farm market-the equivalent of discovering a rich, import-hungry foreign country. In Bloomington, Ill. Sears, Roebuck reports that its trucks go out loaded with freezers, ranges and refrigerators; on R.D.S. routes freezer sales alone are running 50% ahead of last year. Nor are appliances the only things that farmers want. With cash...
...always, Brigitte plays a pouty fleshpot yearning for a man (Henri Vidal) who doesn't yearn back. This unlikely situation is sillier than usual because this time, besides her natural endowments, she has wealth and social position as the daughter of the "Prime Minister" of France. But Vidal, dad's Chief of Foreign Affairs, throws gravel in her face as he takes off in his car to meet his latest mistress...
...Love and a Time to Die (Universal-International) is an earnest pussyfooter, a film that timidly asks an important question and then cuts out its own tongue to avoid an answer. Taken from the paperweight novel by Erich Maria Remarque, A Time to Love flirts with a clutch of social issues-man's frequently contradictory loyalties to self, nation and fellow man-without ever coming to grips with any of them...