Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with stories on a wife-beating and a temperance rally one Saturday in 1851, Horace Greeley's New York Tribune printed a smoldering account of social upheaval and political intrigue in Europe. Under the headline: REVOLUTION AND COUNTERREVOLUTION, the Tribune dispatch carried the staccato byline: Karl Marx...
Tail Twister. In the uneasy years before the Civil War, sweeping schemes for social reform were "far from subversive," Author Hale points out. Greeley himself advocated a more equitable distribution of wealth. As editor of an independent, successful newspaper, he "stood at the center of the turbulence as a barometer, a bellwether, a broker of notions and ideas." Though Marx's dispatches were laden with doom-fraught prophecies of social breakdown, Greeley's young managing editor, Charles A. Dana (later famed as owner-editor of the old New York Sun), happily assured his London correspondent: "They are read...
...difficulty in present urban forms, Gruen said, is that the twofold purposes of streets--providing shopping centers as well as a rapid flow of traffic--are antithetical. According to his plan, residential "clusters" of buildings would form "constellations" around a social center. Traffic would emerge from these clusters into "freeways," and then into large loop and belt arteries...
...Necessity," he said as he reached for his gin flask, "is a matter of social poition and for that matter so is point of view...
...shorter work week is, in all probability, a likely social change in a future of industrial automation. However, there appears to the citizen unacquainted with the automotive industry, little reson to institute such a change at this time. Under the existing full-employment situation, a shorter work week with higher pay would seem only to serve to increase inflation. The attribution of an inflationary influence to the four day work week would heighten the natural resentment of the majority of Americans, working a five-day or sometimes longer week...