Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only fitting in a nation that prides itself on scientific social organization, the rampage was carefully controlled. Early in the week the Soviet press published meticulous accounts of the damage -mainly broken windows-inflicted on the Soviet embassy in Bonn by German students protesting the execution of Hungarian Revolutionaries Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter. Next day 2,000 Russian students and workers appeared before the West German embassy on Moscow's Bolshoi Gruzinskaya Street and began to hurl stones, chunks of concrete and bottles of purple ink. By the time they dispersed two hours later, the ink-stained...
...Spare. An outspoken advocate of New Dealish reforms in Italy, Fanfani promptly looked left. Aided by Italy's Christian Democratic President Giovanni Gronchi, Fanfani won agreement from Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats to join him in a left-of-center anti-Communist coalition. The Christian Democrats' 272 votes and the Social Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement...
With such a slim margin, and against the hostility of right-wing members of his own party, Fanfani would have difficulty putting over his 20-point social and economic program. But there was widespread supposition that once Fanfani got in office, this extremely practical intellectual might be around a while. The national weekly Tempo boldly hailed Fanfani as '"the man who will govern us for the next five years...
...family life: "Better to have a linoleum rug so kids can bring their friends home than a Persian carpet they can't set foot on," philosophized Texas Pastor Fordyce Detamore. Each family, he said, needs a "social secretary...
Justification for the enormous educational effort necessary, spelled out in the report writers' preface, is a humanistic declaration of priority: "A free society nurtures the individual not alone for the contribution he may make to the social effort, but also and primarily for the sake of the contribution he may make to his own realization and development." The authors are optimistic: "It is possible to identify a posture more constructive than handwringing . . . The truth is that never in our history have we been in a better position to commit ourselves wholeheartedly to the pursuit of excellence...