Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice of allowing a man to be a member of more than one undergraduate social fraternity once existed at Harvard. Baird's Manual of American Fraternities verifies this as it names T.R. as a member of both Deke and Alpha Delt. As a result, Delta Kappa Epsilon honors Roosevelt as one of its greatest members, and we do not feel inclined to allow Alpha Delta Phi exclusive claim...
Said Green in the brief: "I believe Judge Murphy is personally prejudiced against me by reason of our long and close political and social relationship and that by reason of his desire to prove his integrity and lack of favoritism, he will not afford me a fair and impartial trial." The prejudice, added Green, arises out of the "many favors I have done for him and the obligations he owes me," e.g., on Judge Murphy's request, Green arranged with the Army to have Murphy's G.I. son transferred from Germany to Paris, plus the fact that...
...group at all, but split fair in two over the artist's ancient agonizer: whether to save the world by his exertions or by his example. Half, led by Osborne, Movieman Lindsay Anderson, 35, and Drama Critic Ken Tynan, 31, said artists must "take an interest in social environment-and that means politics." The rest, spearheaded by Existentialist Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, insisted that politics is for common people, that salvation must first be found by searching the soul...
...Russia, which ideologically blasted the unwelcome visitors out of the world with an atomic cannon. How will the commonsensical British deal with this nonsensical problem? Author Wyndham expends the imagination and skill of a serious novelist on resolving the question. Incidentally, he gives a depressingly convincing picture of British social life. Wyndham has chosen to write about the impossible but has the talent to prove that it happened in an all-too-probable place...
Idealistic Swivet. As early as May 2. Ambassador Francis made a forthright plea for intervention, asking rhetorically "whether [the] Allies can longer afford to overlook principles [of worldwide social revolution] which Lenin is aggressively-championing...