Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blood In the Brain. Purpose of the project is twofold: 1) to issue identity cards to all sadhus and thus drive the crooks out of business by denying them cards; 2) to harness sadhu selflessness for the social betterment of India. The pilot plant at Rishikesh, run by the Indian Association of Sadhus, is a complex of one-story concrete-and-brick buildings equipped with such unascetic features as electric lights, telephones, and outboard motor dinghies to ferry sadhus and supplies across the river. Fifty holy men from all over the country are spending a month there studying political philosophy...
...evils as the caste system, official corruption, adulteration of foodstuffs and the disuniting influence of local dialects. They will also try to debunk the sadhu as an object of superstitious awe by presenting themselves simply as do-gooders, rather than miracle men, and interpreting Hindu scripture in terms of social service...
...adoption, and Dr. Schneck questions whether they are a good risk: "Could the mother's emotional instability which led her to resort to narcotics, foreshadow the neuro-hereditary pattern of her offspring? Or is the infants' ultimate emotional development primarily one of environment?" The problem's social and genetic aspects, concludes Dr. Schneck, need a lot more study...
...company that few Wall Streeters had heard of until recently: General Development Corp., whose shares went from twelve to 17? in the past month. General Development, pioneering a new kind of land boom in Florida, is building and selling houses at a price that retired oldsters on social security can afford...
After Long Silence is revealing in spite of its author, not because of him. Fitzgerald's "flaming youth'' was consciously breaking social taboos even when it did no more than kiss and pet. Novelist Gutwillig's off-beat generation takes its sinning much more casually, but jabs itself with sensations for the sake of sensations. The author's implied excuse for their frantic frivolities is apocalyptic-apres nons the fallout. But back of it all is the eternal romantic urge of the young to live in and for the moment. The unwitting pathos of Author...