Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resisting change, the new conservatism plays a creative role in directing it." Thus the progress of the corporation is inextricably linked with the progress of the community at large. Arthur A. Smith, vice president of the First National Bank in Dallas, defines the new conservatism as "a philosophy of social welfare, something the modern businessman's forerunner would have scoffed at." Less than 20 years ago. Republic Steel strikebreakers were battling union workers on the streets of Massillon, Ohio. Now. says Republic President Thomas F. Patton, management has learned that the welfare of its employees "is just as important...
Though businessmen fought a long delaying action against the growth of labor unions, against Government intervention in economic affairs, against social legislation, the majority now realize that welfare programs help store up purchasing power in the hands of the consumer. Says Gaylord A. Freeman Jr., vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago: "I think social security is good. I think unions are good. Unemployment compensation is desirable. Social legislation can add to the totality of freedom, increase the dignity of the individual...
Giant. In a picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller 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...
...Torcello, Harry's Bar, Murano, Burano, the pigeons, the glass beads, the vaporetto. Venice is a folding picture-postcard of itself." But Tourist McCarthy is no ordinary tourist. Whether she is discussing the merits of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini, Giorgione, or building up a rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp of a rangy mind not to be fobbed off with commonplaces. To get the feel of Venice, she proceeds not by touch, but by touchstones...
...committee findings follows years of deep questioning of the whole "bicker" system--through which sophomores are hastily picked for membership in the 17 plush undergraduate eating clubs that line Prospect Street. The alumni-controlled club system, with its strong hold on undergraduate life, maintained by a monopoly over upperclass social and dining facilities, has been criticized as an island of outside interference within the University...