Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appalled to learn of the outrageous use of psychometric tests made by a Maryland social service agency. Granted that the test is valid (which is quite a concession for the age of 2½), this cult of intelligence worshipers seems so bedazzled by a high IQ that it overlooks the fact that rearing a brilliant child without siblings (even though less bright) will not prepare the child for life in a world full of intelligent people. The agency perhaps does not realize that overprotection can be as injurious as rejection...
...Russell put on a brand-new, dark blue (his best color) suit, took the Senate floor to denounce the civil rights bill as nothing but another Reconstruction-style force bill, "cunningly contrived," based on bayonet rule, and designed to "destroy the separate system for the races on which the social order of the Southern states is built...
...poor-"If we wanted a drink of water, we had to draw it out of the well; before we ate, we knew that wood had to be chopped for the stove"-but the glory of the Old South for such as the Russells was that poverty was no social handicap if the family stock was good and if the family showed the right kind of regard for Southern tradition...
...clean, incisive portrait of an able executive who proves, if nothing else, that the boss is not always right. With uncommon cunning, Executive Smith is squeezed out of the big corporative setup and eased into the humiliating role of a shoe salesman at I. Miller. In injured tones, his social-minded wife (played by Andy Hardy's old valentine, Ann Rutherford) reminds him: "We haven't even paid the caterer for the party we gave last year." But even after he reaches a point of possible return, Actor Smith renounces his venal boss's offer...
...time when contemporary American drama consists largely of stillborn carbon copies of Ibsen, Shaw and Chek- hov, Kerr departs from realism, naturalism and contemporary social problems. Turning to Aristophanic comedy and American history, he weaves a very refreshing and unusual play that injects new life and variety into the Iceberg American theatre, and which, baring the bedrock of American ideals and tradition, reveals the strains of a nation's soul through song, fables and poesy, and so utterly avoids didactic realism...