Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominant note" in the U.S. social climate, said Nye, is fear-"fear that you will fall behind in the display of ostentatious personal expenditure, fear that dandruff or body odor might lose you your sweetheart, fear of this, fear of that, fear for your job, fear that you might be thought to hold views repugnant to your employer...
...into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after the 1929 crash) an unemployment insurance plan for 100,000 employees (before the days of social security). In 1931 he presented his famed "Swope Plan" for stabilizing industry, a scheme for a national organization of modified cartels in which competition would be limited, overproduction governed, workers and investors vigorously protected, and responsibility for unemployment put on the shoulders of industry. Swope retired in favor of Charles...
...lies in American history, for example, might study original writings of the late nineteenth century in order to determine for himself the causes of Progressivism. This would at the same time give him a more integral view of historical movements, which the discrete quality of his courses--economic, political, social or intellectual history--often precludes...
Discussion turned to the old days, and the novelist reflected on the unpleasant social distinctions of the pre-House era, when the clubs had some importance in Harvard life...
...This is a wonderful subject for a novel of manners. The organization man and the impact of the corporation on our social life are some of the most significant facts of the American scene today. I am glad writers are beginning to pay serious attention to them. There is nothing easier to do than make fun of the president of an advertising agency or these damned business conferences, don't you know--conventions in Atlantic City. I think they're both bad and good; I haven't very many fixed opinions on them...