Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least seven leagues removed from the days when he followed his famed father in dueling along balustrades and skewering villains behind the arras, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., now a London boulevardier, last week bagged a pride of social lions. The catch at Fairbanks' coming-out party for his 17-year-old daughter Daphne: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret with a new and eminently eligible beau, 23-year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with...
...equally conservative Cleveland News, though owned by the Plain Dealer's publishers, applauded the court's decisions as upholding "the individual rights on which the American system is based." The Southern press, already convinced by the desegregation decision that the Supreme Court is heeding social and political expediency rather than legal precedent, spoke almost solidly against the latest decision, abounding in comments that amounted to: "We told...
...people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus herself (she has Swedish, Polish, Finnish and American blood), and their luck is uniformly bad. Placid Maria is forced into marriage with a Russian count; lovely Lisa's husband dies in the war; reckless Clarissa gets pregnant by a social inferior; Polish Teresa lets her fiance go rather than subject him to Communism; headstrong Rosemary's lover already has a wife; Pianist Anne-Marie loses her man to the priesthood...
...Boston got that way has been writen down in the involved accounts of many long books. The Puritans are blamed, or the Irish, or the Italians, or the weather, or Curley, or Beacon Hill, or the Red Sox, or social forces...
...addition to the regular summer group meetings, the International Seminar also writes and publishes "Confluences," a quarterly which discusses political issues, the social sciences, and other themes of modern thought...