Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hygiene measures are taken exclusively at the desire of the persons concerned. Experience shows that patients, after having been informed on the significance of the hereditary taint, nearly always follow their doctor's advice." He does not explain how a mentally defective patient can understand the medical and social considerations involved, or how "voluntariness" can be achieved...
Cooperate, Coordinate. Sixteen states are now members of the S.R.E.B., and 65 colleges and universities have joined the Ivey league to cooperate in 30 different fields. Each year the board arranges to send hundreds of students whose home states do not have schools of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or social work to states that do. By such exchanges, says Ivey, the board not only relieves hard-pressed campuses of the necessity of adding facilities that would be duplicated elsewhere; it strengthens the graduate schools already in existence. For instance, Nashville's Meharry Medical College, a medical and dental school...
...same public ghostwriter, onetime Newsman Gerold Frank, who took down Diana's outpourings in 2,000 pages of notes. What partly redeems the book is that it throws some light on one of America's great acting families, and that it documents for the amateur social anthropologist the squalor and sadness that lie behind a world which millions of Americans have come to accept as breathtakingly glamorous...
...Actor John Barrymore-"the most beautiful man that ever lived," said she, "like a young archangel." But their unangelic love affair was like "a tennis match in Hell." More than three years later, Blanche Thomas, defying the warning cries of her friends and the exigencies of the Social Register, divorced her husband, Leonard Thomas, and married her archangel...
Parsifal on the Capehart. When Mummy finally stumbled out of her marriage to John Barrymore, she married Wall Street Attorney Harrison Tweed, returned to the Social Register and determined to make a lady of Diana. The girl was sent to Miss Hewitt's Classes (where "the Astors and Vanderbilts always voted for each other in class elections"), to the Brearley School and to Garrison Forest, where her father wound up in a necking session with one of her schoolmates. ''You look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note...