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Word: socialism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...someone who openly accepted alliance with and aid from the U.S. But Diem's surprising success, and Communist North Viet Nam's conspicuous failures, have been changing Asian minds. Last week Burma's U Nu, a man increasingly disillusioned by his Communist neighbors, paid a social call on Diem in Saigon, came away impressed: "I was told you were a man with a martial look, but I see you are charming." Added a U Nu aide: "Our press says Viet Nam is war-torn and wretched, but we find a very efficiently run country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: No Longer a Pariah | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Boston got that way has been written down in the involved accounts of many long books. The Puritans are blamed, or the Irish, or the Italians, or the weather, or Curley, or Beacon Hill, or the Red Sox, or social forces...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Boston: Pedestrian Impressions | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...work-shirts and heavy sweaters at the Army Surplus and that maybe his company might have a hard time out-mass-producing them. He changed the subject to hip pockets. We didn't have much to say on the subject, so he asked about the men in the "social organizations...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The New Shoe | 11/20/1956 | See Source »

Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Squareville. Between black American and Red Russian there was no meeting of minds. The Americans were represented mainly by the Porgy players, who had been given by American history a faculty for looking at social institutions with a wary eye. The Russians were represented by 1984 men, whom history had given nothing but a theory of history. Jive and Marxism simply do not dig each other. It is Capote's achievement that the pseudo-sophistication of jive comes through as a kind of innocence, while the smug smog of Marxism is shown for what it is-a grey disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home for Dead Cats | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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