Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some time the development of American cinema as responsible social criticism has been hampered by an outdated Movie Production Code which has recently been radically liberalized. This code is a voluntary intraindustry set-up designed to assuage self-appointed guardians of the national moral fiber and to squelch agitation for federal censorship. It is not aimed primarily at pornography or obscenity, but at insuring that the films will not conflict with moral principles of one sort or another. Crime doesn't pay, true love always wins out, infidelity and adultery must be punished, national honor, the fair name of American...
...Council also voted to disband the Town-Gown Relationships Committee. One of the reasons given was that due to the complexity of sociology, the exploration of such problems should be left to better qualified agencies, such as P.B.H. and the Social Relations Department...
Most significantly, however, the committee has also recommended that eating, social, and recreational facilities be provided in any new houses which are built. This would be a step away from the present system...
...Harold M. Dodds, president of Princeton, emphasized that the step involves no radical change. "In arriving at these conclusions," he said, "the committee states explicitly that plans for dormitories containing dining and social facilities for men in clubs, and living quarters for both club members and nonclub members do not mean a radical change-over in the total campus pattern...
...only a good novel but one that touches her contemporaries in a vital, highly sensitive nerve. That nerve is the anguished one of old Europe. A Legacy describes the Victorian and Edwardian heyday when well-to-do men and women wandered without let or hindrance in a network of social connections that ran from the tip of Scotland to the toe of Italy. They toiled not, neither did they spin (except in diplomatic circles), and Robert, Léon and Tzara struck them as being a lot more human than the middle and lower classes. The broken, frontier-barred Europe...