Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, three members of the Russian Research Center published a report entitled "How the Soviet System Works." It is based on the first large-scale study of attitudes and life-experiences of Soviet citizens--some 3,000 of them--and was conducted by the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, with the support of the U.S. Air Force. It is the first scholarly approach to the subject...
...authors of the report are: Raymond A. Bauer, lecturer on Social Psychology; Alex Inkeles, lecturer on Sociology; and Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology...
Partly, the new attitude comes from the general change in 20th century business philosophy. Where companies were once concerned only with products and payrolls, today's businessman feels that he is a civic leader with a social responsibility to the market he serves. "Business has a golden opportunity to demonstrate that it can be responsive to more needs of society than its material requirements," says Frank Abrams, retired Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) chairman, who spends at least two days each week on civic projects. But partly, too, the new civic-mindedness is just good hardheaded business sense. Chicago...
...sponged off his mother while he was trying to learn his trade as a writer. This picture of the callous genius-which was to appear in many of his plays-delighted him, but it was totally untrue, says Ervine. Similarly, Shaw roared outrageous-and contradictory-political, social and economic opinions that, often as not, were hyperbole...
...when Authoress Metalious is not all flustered by sex, she captures a real sense of the tempo, texture and tensions in the social anatomy of a small town. Her ear for local speech is unflinching down to the last four-letter word, and her characters have a sort of rawboned vitality that may produce low animal moans in many a critic's throat...