Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reared under strong disciplinarians and schooled under the meekest of socio-individual reformers, I see no antagonism between the two. The strong arm needs a big heart. It is only when one is greatly out of proportion to the other that hateful mastery or loveless nonrestraint occurs. Ministers and social workers in New York should warmly appreciate a policeman like Kennedy...
...Reminded us that only sensible economics, not razzle-dazzle substitutes, can truly serve the ends of equity and social justice...
...years after Nasser rose to power, it still appears as if his one dominating goal is to amass strength-but strength to perpetuate his own power rather than strength to carry out the economic and social transformation of his country. He is no man of the people, but prefers to keep the crowd at balcony distance. A remote and shining figure, a man of photographs and broadcasts, he mesmerizes most from afar; Syrians flocked to vote for his presidency last spring before he had ever visited their country...
...When churches fail to be "merciful neighbors," they misunderstand vast social changes, said Germany's Dr. Martin Niemoeller to a Christian World Mission meeting in Silver Bay, N.Y. "The Socialist movement grew in Europe without any assistance or correction from the Christian churches, and the way was paved for the atheistic Communist system which has found its bulwark in Russia. The churches ought to have shown a Christian and human way of dealing with the growing crisis of coexistence between East and West. But they were and are hopelessly linked to the bourgeois world. They did not even...
Citing this play in an article in last Sunday's New York Times, the British author Stephen Spender said: "The way in which a talent can be damped down by success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though...