Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest rates, have helped immensely in preserving the federal republic against inflationary dangers. But Erhard created the proper climate, bulled away the obstacles. Keeping clear of technical intricacies, he preaches the wider doctrine of expanding productivity, the Soziale Marktwirtschaft that might be translated loosely as "free enterprise alive to social responsibilities." It means, he once remarked only half jokingly, "The state can interfere if it is absolutely necessary...
...achievement and retention of prosperity is competition. Only by competition can an economy expand to serve all people, especially in their capacity as consumers, and dissolve all advantages which do not result directly from higher performance. Free competition thus leads to progress and profits for the whole social order...
...German occupation Camus fired the morale of the underground with eloquent pieces in his clandestine Combat. After the war he personified, with Sartre, the "engaged" writer, an active intellectual always ready to slide down the bell rope of the ivory tower and answer the fire alarms of left-wing social and economic causes. The two friends split irrevocably in 1952 over Communist ideology, with Camus holding that ends never justify means ("For a faraway city of which I am not sure, I will not strike the faces of my brothers"). Since that time, Camus has become what Fran...
...Gestapomen of World War II. Confronted with the Hitler terror, Camus cried "What values did we have . . . which we could oppose to his negation? None." In The Plague (1947), a parable of the Resistance couched in terms of a city under sentence of bubonic death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned to attack the pestilence of modern revolutionary ideologies: "Revolt and revolution both wind...
...rodeo hits Boston? Not much, if one is interested in good rodeo. In the East, rodeo becomes a spectacle, not a sport. In the West, where rodeo is close to its roots, rodeo for its own sake is highly respected. In many communities the rodeo is the big social and cultural event of the year. Everybody dons their Western apparel (in the bigger Western cities people are fined and jailed for not doing so) and goes to the rodeo. Being head of the citizen's rodeo committee is one of the most highly honored civic positions. Many Westerners have ranch...