Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerable disenchantment with the President. In Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, a Denver weekly, Democratic Publisher Eugene Cervi crowed: "Big business and its willing handmaiden, the fat metropolitan dailies . . . loved Ike as long as he was a 'weak President.' Now that the President's social conscience is beginning to bother him, the harlots of journalism are screaming." More realistically, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill thought that "Mr. Eisenhower's usually sugar-sweet press support is here and there becoming shrewish," but only because the press "failed from the beginning by setting...
...printed circular was certainly sedate enough to come from such a blue-blooded prep school as Massachusetts' Groton. But to the hundreds of alumni who received it in the mail last week it was, to say the least, something of a shock. "As desegregation is clearly the prime social duty facing the country today," said the circular, "Groton wishes to do all a school can towards complete eradication of the evil of segregation ... In consistence with Christian doctrine and the teachings of the Bible and in consistence with the human beliefs of two of Groton's most eminent...
...recommended that it be stopped. Last week a more reasonable judgment came from Washington's Assistant School Superintendent Carl F. Hansen. Integration, says he in a study published by B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, has been nothing less than a "miracle of social adjustment...
Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture enthusiast. Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov...
...quoted Critic Anatoly Chlemov deploring the view that "just about the only subject [is] the portrayal and glorification of Stalin," and hailing the fact that "the beauty of the nude body, especially the feminine, that eternal theme of realistic art, has again found its place in the painting of social realism...