Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy first tangled with "Communist" professors here in November, 1953, when he summoned Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, before his subcommittee. On January 17, 1954, he summoned Furry and Leon J. Kamin '49, former research assistant in Social Relations, before his subcommittee hearing in Boston, at which time the two declined to use the fifth amendment...
...America's real needs is a greater social stratification. A "rising middle class" seems to be absorbing all Americans and their values into its omnivorous Levittowns. Unfortunately, our soil has been tilled by the frontiersman or the commercial farmer--both of them interested in improving their position in society. Thus the middle class has been increased in numbers, while there has been no class lovingly devoted--like the Russian peasant--to the land. Although we realize that mere economic measures would not bring about the desired social structure, it is also true that the older European corporate and feudal system...
...attempts to remedy this problem, the Harvard International Activities Committee of the Student Council, plans to assist the foreign student in his first few days in Cambridge, and to follow up throughout the year with information on the ins and outs of Harvard life. During Orientation week in September social mixers and Crimson Key tours are planned, and later, arrangements for dinner engagements and weekends at local students' homes will hel pease the foreign student into Cambridge society. A particularly worthwhile part of the HIACOM plan will be to arrange for foreign students to stay in American homes over...
...lower stiff penalties against offending magazines so that it will be easier to get convictions. In Pittsburgh, after a six-day investigation, a grand jury warned: "Immediate action must be taken to save our young people from being corrupted by lewd literature. Printed filth is seriously threatening our moral, social and community life...
Gerald Cowley Holcombe, Viscount Manningford, and Peter Savage are turn-of-the-century pals at Cambridge. Gerry is the gracious son of an earl and Peter is a steely-eyed child of fortune. Peter does his first serious social climbing on a Swiss Alp when he seduces Gerry's well-heeled, well-built girl friend Emily on "the steep slope above the Zmuttbach.'' Married and shortly in receipt of Gerry's gentlemanly blessing ("the best man won"), the couple head for the Punjab and Peter's civil-service duties...