Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once upon a time," said Nikita, "there were three men in a prison. They were a Social Democrat, an anarchist and a humble little Jew?a half-educated,little fellow named Pinya. They decided to elect a cell leader who would watch over distribution of food, tea and tobacco. The anarchist, a big, burly fellow, was against such a lawful process as electing authority. To show his contempt for law and order, he proposed that insignificant little Pinya be elected. They elected Pinya. Things went well, and they decided to escape. The Social Democrat had a good intellect; he made...
...this week-long hymn of hatred for the West was the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference. Its delegates, sadly enough, were in many cases people of substance and standing in their native lands. The Indian delegation was led by bulky, 71-year-old Mrs. Rameshwari Nehru, a respected social worker and cousin-in-law to India's Prime Minister. The 45-man Japanese contingent was headed by Tokutaro Kitamura, a prominent banker and Liberal-Democratic member of Japan's Diet. Among the delegates from the Sudan was Foreign Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub...
...screen. Southeast Asia offered some striking individual shots, such as a closeup of an opium smoker, and picturesque views of Thai boxers, golden Burmese temples and the stone splendor of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. But in trying to do too much-a travelogue plus a report of things social, economic, political, religious, anthropological-it did almost nothing well. Instead, it frequently suggested a melange of scrambled lantern slides. James (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener's commentary, delivered in a tired drawl, was repetitive, primer-simple, and studded with long gaps in which the viewer was left without...
...Forever Glorious." Along with the political consultations came the inescapable demands of international conviviality. At the social climax of the conference, French President René Coty's dinner at the Elysée Palace, Ike appeared resplendent in midnight-blue tails, the red breast ribbon of the Legion of Honor and France's highest decoration for soldiers, the Médaille Militaire. Sitting next to Coty's English-speaking daughter Genevieve Egloff, the only woman among 167 men, Ike heard himself toasted as "a chief forever glorious," chatted with animation until nearly eleven o'clock. Shortly...
Critics charge that the message in contemporary juveniles is one of tame social "adjustment" and of a vast, undifferentiat-ing tolerance. "Love thy neighbor." they say, has been replaced by "Love that minority." Books by the hundred set out to show that "the little Zulu or heathen Chinee is absolutely like you and me." Sociologist David Riesman analyzes Tootle as appropriate for bringing up children "in an other-directed mode of conformity": a story about a locomotive that learns to stay on the track like other docile little engines, instead of wandering happily in the fields. In Play With...