Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty to increase its scholarship programs and to build new houses for its growing student body. But a major reason for Harvard's need is the phenomenal growth of knowledge itself. Both the chemistry and astronomy departments, for instance, have outgrown their facilities. The young department of social relations never had proper accommodations in the first place. There must also be funds for the continual "creation of new professorships to keep pace with the advance of knowledge...
...alarming rate among U.S. teen-agers in some areas. Latest figures: 200,000 persons between 11 and 19 now have VD (more than half the number of total cases), and by current estimates, 200,000 more will be infected next year. To find out why, the American Social Hygiene Association announced that it will spend $92,000 on a wide-ranging study. Items to be investigated: teen-age sex behavior, relationships between VD and juvenile delinquency, social and economic background of VD victims...
...increased personal morality . .. To become a church member in America is easy, too easy! ... It must be remembered, though, that in the Wesleyan Revival of the 18th century there was a time lag of nearly a quarter of a century between the preaching . . . and the impact on the social life of Britain...
...process, conservatism has undergone as dramatic a transformation as the evolution of the 175-m.p.h. biplane into the 2,000-m.p.h. rocket aircraft. Through the Committee for Economic Development, the National Planning Association and scores of other groups, businessmen and educators are boldly charting economic and social policies that project conservatism's new look. Increasingly, its prophets are finding the word '"conservatism" inadequate to describe the aims and achievements of present-day capitalism. Eager sponsors have proffered a dozen new labels: capitalism with a conscience, enlightened conservatism, people's capitalism, etc. But still the most widely accepted...
Though ultraconservative businessmen (and many liberals) thought in 1952 that a G.O.P. victory would be a triumph for reaction, they sadly misjudged the temper of the times. By conserving and enlarging the social programs inherited from the New and Fair Deals, the Eisenhower Ad ministration helped set a course for the new conservative. Instead of returning to a dog-eat-dog economy. Administration trustbusters have vigilantly policed big business. The Administration has expanded social security, federal aid to hospitals, low-cost housing subsidies and other programs that were once anathema to the standpat conservative. The most significant contribution of Eisenhower...