Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics: Accents the "progressive" in his party's official name, Progressive Conservative. Backs flexible farm supports, social security and health measures, more federal aid to penniless Atlantic provinces. Shunning a doctrinaire stand, he goes along with Can ada's pattern of government competition with private enterprise in rails, airlines, hotels, TV. He is temperately critical of the U.S. cultural, economic and political "invasion" of Canada, favors "Canada first," closer ties to Britain. When Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, killed himself after a U.S. Senate subcommittee charged him with Communist sympathies in the '30s, Diefenbaker sided with...
...medical-minded kibitzers, they packed meetings at which 400 scientific papers were presented, window-shopped through 700 scientific and commercial exhibits. And a group of 196 doctors, members of the house of delegates, decided what face the A.M.A. should show the public, and what stand it should take on social and political issues...
Free Love & Bolshevism. He introduced its first undergraduate course in social science, injected large doses of philosophy into the curriculum. He brought in such men as Poet Robert Frost, Author Stark Young and Critic George Whicher. But in trying to reconstruct the college, he infuriated many oldtimers on the faculty. He also irritated his trustees by completely disassociating himself from fundraising. Finally, in one of the most publicized academic uproars of the time, he was forced to hand in his resignation in 1923. That commencement, 13 students flatly refused to accept their degrees, and eight professors and associate professors quit...
...fascism on the American scene during the '30s is that West brought enough invention to one page for most novelists to spread thin over a book, and a style as lean and resourceful as a hungry wildcat. Above all, West was not parochial, did not advocate political or social systems. He was one of those men in whom pity must take the form of anger, but his anger was not anything as simple as anti-American or anti-Babbitt; it was anti-human nature...
...genius is bound to catch some ineffable quality that the traveler, with or without camera, is bound to miss. That is the premise of these two books, with their 144 handsome color reproductions of Paris from the 14th to the 20th centuries, around which Art Critic Courthion's social and artistic commentary flows with the unobtrusive authority of the Seine...