Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained...
...Hatta and Sukarno flew off together to "Indonesia's Arlington Cemetery" in Djokjakarta to purge their souls of rancor at the grave of General Sudirman, military hero of the revolt against the Dutch. For the first time since his resignation as Vice President last December, Hatta accepted a social invitation to the presidential palace, even joined Sukarno in leading lissome Moluccas maidens through the steps of the "sweety-sweety" dance, To cap the ceremonies, a troupe of Central Javanese actors put on an adapted 8th century Hindu morality play in which a pair of quarreling brothers are finally reunited...
Beyond personality and technique, Murrow's persuasiveness is rooted in a prickly social conscience and a sense of mission about keeping people informed. An NBC cynic has versified: "Nobody's brow furrows like Edward R. Murrow's." Murrow's worried look is genuine. "He internalizes world events," says a friend. "They flow right through him like a stream. The fall of Britain would have been as meaningful to him as the loss of a child to one of us." This outsized sense of responsibility fills Murrow's work with conviction and sincerity. Says a colleague...
...smokes too much (three packs of Camels a day), is still gnawed by nerves before every broadcast; even in the air-conditioned studio, doing his radio show, he drips sweat and jiggles his legs tensely. He is a procrastinator and a soft touch. He has little small talk in social conversation. He has an intemperate streak that pushes him beyond sensible limits in poker playing, makes him work 40 hours at a stretch in a projection room or overdo the plowing on his farm. Sometimes in company he drifts off into trancelike gloom. Though he can be an amiable companion...
...Tatas always mixed social-mindedness with their capitalism. Over the years they led in raising industrial wages, improving the health and housing of employees. Eighty per cent of the wealth of Tata Sons was systematically given away to charitable trusts. When leftists say capitalism is passe, Tata replies: so is socialism. "Considering the remarkable progress made in capitalistic countries, particularly since the war, such a view can only refer to the 19th and early 20th century type of capitalism, which is, indeed, just as out of date as the 19th and early 20th century type of socialism...