Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintained that in most fields students could take their general examinations at the end of three years of graduate work and could write their doctoral theses during their fifth year. At present, graduates in Humanities take from four to nine years to earn their degree, in Social Sciences from four to eight years, and in Natural Sciences about four years...
...test to determine how well people will work together has been devised by William C. Schutz, lecturer on social psychology, it was announced yesterday. Experiments with groups formed on the basis of these tests indicate that the test can predict what kinds of people will be compatible...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's best-seller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
...novel stem from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728). The novel was curiously ignored by U.S. reviewers when it appeared in translation in 1938 as A Penny for the Poor, possibly because its turn-of-the-century London setting scarcely conformed to the modish social-protest patterns of the '30s. Social protest the book certainly is, but of an unsparing misanthropy that crosses all class lines. In a dimly lit nether world of total amorality, human sharks snap at and devour each other as instinctively as do their marine cousins on the ocean floor...
...persecutors, the similarity of involvement in the same collective struggle for the perpetuation of life. The movie does this, and ends with the hope that these people will do better in the future, as they of course did. Although Grapes of Wrath has much less value as social criticism and protest in 1956, it still is worth seeing for its successful portrayal of an heroic human drama...