Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowding into Milan's seedy, smoke-filled Halcyon Theater, 547 Social Democratic bigwigs shouted and orated in impressive abstract discussions of Marxist theory, but were unable even to agree on a platform for Italy's general elections, now only six months off. After years of unchallenged dominance of the party, moody, long-faced Giuseppe Saragat, 59, twice Vice Premier of Italy, was seriously threatened by 36-year-old Matteo Matteotti, whose only program was unification after the elections. Matteotti did not explain how Social Democrats could win votes by, in effect, promising to become Nenni Socialists right after...
...aftermath of dissension, there seemed little remaining hope that the Social Democrats could ever lure Italy's left-wing voters from the Communist-tainted banner of Pietro Nenni. As for unification, Nenni made clear he no longer considered the Social Democrats in any position to demand concessions from...
...Against Common Sense." In his 72 years Niels Bohr has probably received more awards, prizes, decorations, honorary degrees and memberships than any other living scientist. In Denmark he is a Knight of the Elephant, close below the royal family in official social precedence. Although past the age for pioneering research, he is still a powerful influence among his scientist colleagues...
...with ordinary people with ordinary problems. After 3½ years the synod elders decided that the Fisher family had come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern social problems-how a family reacts when polio strikes, how a man adjusts to blindness, the dilemmas...
...Jesus was a mild Jewish reformer who was primarily interested in social revolution . . . But somewhere around the middle of the first century a Jew named Paul of Tarsus got converted to the movement and right away proceeded to get it all fouled up with theological nonsense. He made Jesus out to be the hero of a mystery religion, and went around preaching the gospel that all men could be assured of a niche in Heaven if they would only accept him as Lord and Savior...