Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Term . . ." How did it happen? For one thing, as Dwight Eisenhower said later, "Maine had a very popular governor." Genial Ed Muskie, son of a Polish immigrant, had turned in a successful administration, programmed improvements in social welfare, education, development of natural resources, asked for a minimum wage law, a new department of industry and commerce, and proposed a bond issue to maintain the pace of highway construction. What further fired Maine's independent-minded voters was Muskie's straightforward eggheadedness (Bates '36, Phi Beta Kappa), his ability to discuss convincingly ethical and moral questions...
...about it. It was there, like air or food or any other element. It was one of the things of the world. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. It can be used for evil purposes, or it can be an instrumentality for constructive social living...
...Awesome Compulsion. It is because J.D.R. Jr.'s is a life of constructive social giving that he ranks as an authentic American hero, just as certainly as any general who ever won a victory for American arms, or any statesman who triumphed on behalf of U.S. diplomacy. Rockefeller's life is simply, quietly and uniquely dedicated to his fellow men. Through his compulsive drive to push back the horizons of learning, culture, and opportunity, he has set in motion currents that have influenced the lives of most of his fellow citizens at home and millions of his fellow...
...time in his life J.D.R. Jr. was already beginning to explore the meanings of warmer words than confidence. Awkwardly, at the age of 20, he had learned how to dance. "I made up my mind that I had to conquer my shyness. I had to get a measure of social ease," he wrote home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon a Providence belle named Abby Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island's powerful, wealthy senior U.S. Senator, Nelson Aldrich, at her home at 110 Benevolent Street. He took Abby to college dances and football games...
...Corner. Like the herds of problem youths that have sprung up in other places, and in other generations. Britain's Teddy Boys are the byproduct of great social upheaval. Born for the most part of poor parents in the slums of Britain's big cities, they had sketchy education and their home life was almost nonexistent. Thanks to the war, they spent much of their childhood herded together in shelters, or evacuated in groups into an alien countryside where the activities of all city boys are regarded with cold suspicion. Back in the cities again, they began...