Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safe, non-controversial subject when he applied last fall for a spare-time course at Moscow University. A friendly, strapping (6 ft. 4 in.) Yaleman ('49) with an infectious smile, Russian-speaking John Baker soon began to get invitations to student parties and to student homes, returned the social obligations by digging up tickets to U.S.-Soviet athletic events for his Russian friends. "I never volunteered any information," said Baker, "but when they asked questions, I answered them...
...present wave of Moslem enthusiasm for integration is, there are staggering difficulties involved. On a one-man, one-vote basis, Algeria's Moslems would send more than 100 Deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, and they would effectively control political power in Algeria itself. If salaries, social security and family allotments were equalized with those of Metropolitan France, it would cost millions of dollars. Who would pay, and with what...
...political conflicts among its citizens by settling for a government without a head -a government in which no single group could ever acquire enough power and responsibility to carry out a consistent long-term national policy. The bourgeois and petty bourgeois "republicans," who believed that the supreme end of social life was the self-gratification of the individual citizen, were left free to evade their taxes and pursue their pleasures. Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese, Tonkinese, Tunisians...
...unquestioned devoutness is a target in a campaign marked by anticlerical attacks. His New-Dealish social program makes him unpalatable to conservative Christian Democrats. His all-out organizing methods antagonize the other democratic middle-road parties, whose support has been essential to Christian Democratic rule since 1953 (he lasted only twelve days in his one fling at the premiership four years ago). A recent poll showed that not Fanfani, the party leader, but former Premier and now Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella is the most popular Christian Democrat in Italy...
...M.A.T. pros, descendants of the group that "Method" Director Konstantin Stanislavsky helped to found 60 years ago, gave their Chekhov a faithfully reproduced period atmosphere. But their exuberant performance carefully nurtured the most hopeful stems in his grim orchard, and pruned out the darker growths in his vision of social decay. Trofimov, for example, a pompous dreamer in most Western versions, becomes more the fiercely earnest youth, obviously the bright hope of a Soviet future. And Gayev and Madame Ranevskaya, usually played as cultivated bumblers, appear as sober, ordinary people overtaken by cold reality...