Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divine couple." After the wedding, glitter returned to Mother's life; she quit the dress shop, rented a penthouse in Paris. Meanwhile, at home in Palm Beach, Bob Sweeny began spending more time on golf, less around the house. Despite the birth of two daughters and the gay social life, Society Matron Joanne soon felt "as if I had been missing out on life." She agonized over her diet, sought new companionship on the gaudier fringes of the Palm Beach sporting set. "Remember," Sweeney once explained, "she is young, very young." But in 1953, he won an uncontested divorce...
...party was carrying out to do away with the consequences of the personality cult"; 4) "offered constant opposition . . . to the struggle against the revisionists of Marxism-Leninism" inside and outside the country; 5) they had "attempted to oppose the Leninist policy of peaceful coexistence between states with different social systems"; and 6) they had "carried on an entirely unwarranted struggle against the party's appeal . . . to overtake the United States" in food production...
...with practical solutions to everyday problems. Though round-faced Economist Witte regarded himself as "an old-fashioned teacher" who was never really happy away from the campus on which he had studied and taught so long, he helped draft many a progressive law for his state, wrote the Federal Social Security Act of 1934-35, campaigned constantly against colleagues who were so bent on appearing scientific and mathematical that they succeeded only in not being read...
...summer season's most fetching musical offering proved last week to be also its weightiest serving of social significance. The program: the Nat "King" Cole Show, starring the tall, courtly $500,000-a-year troubadour who has played the world's plushiest nightspots and sold a staggering 50 million records. Last fall NBC gave 38-year-old Cole a 15-minute weekly spot, making him the first of U.S. show business' numerous and talented Negroes to star as host of his own TV network show. Launching a new weekly series (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), the network last...
...most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging a hectically traditional Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns its screwy pleasure palace right down to the ground, but not before a nice boy meets a nice girl there-object, simple matrimony...