Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brattle building itself has a long history in the Commonwealth. It was originally a Lutheran church about a hundred years ago, and was rebuilt in 1890 by the Cambridge Social Union to provide "innocent amusements and means of social and intellectual improvements." The downstairs section--now the Gropper Art Galleries--had at one time been used as a police gymnasium. Several theatre groups have had their ups and downs in the building, of which probably the best-remembered was the late and occasionally lamented (except by the handful of Cambridge citizens who were badly "bitten" in frequent drives for money...
...college that wishes to help its students enjoy the "Age of Leisure," to say nothing of success in business or politics, should not neglect physical education in skills of lasting value: golf, tennis, fly-casting, squash, etc. The advantages of such a program are recreational, social and eventually material...
...collection of prints now at the Fogg Museum, Munch betrays little social consciousness. He dwells instead in the primal world of individual fantasy and frustration which give his art universal appeal. The exhibit shows that the morbid Munch was at his sardonic best between 1894 and 1900, when he created such masterpieces as The Cry and The Kiss. Later, his subject matter was more commonplace and his skill at dramatizing his ideas declined correspondingly. Although Munch might be called, after Van Gogh, the father of Expressionism, some of his prints have an affinity in style with Gaughin's flat...
...science of roommate-choosing has its roots in darkest antiquity. Neanderthal man used the purely pragmatic approach, testing his prespective cavemate's worth by applying repeated delicate blows of the club to the latter's cranium. Although clubs today profess to more advanced methods of social scrutiny, the general idea has remained the same throughout the dim search of Man for Friend...
...social change in a large area is a slow, tough process. But when it becomes insurmountable, the basic structure of democracy has collapsed," he said...