Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath this calm surface, the Democratic situation of 1956 has the ingredients for as much hollering and noise as the party has ever heard before. There is the basic split between moderates and radicals on economic and social policy. The fuse burns short on the civil-rights issue. And personal bitterness grows between,, the two leading candidates for the nomination: Adlai Ewing Stevenson of Illinois and William Averell Harriman of New York. The key question as the convention approaches: Will the quiet be broken...
...feminists found something to focus their anger on last April, when then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali* made his pretty young social secretary his second wife. In response to the outcry, the government assigned an advisory Commission on Marriage and Family Laws (four men and three women) to chart out the dangerous ground between the feminists and the powerful polygamy lobby-Moslem mullahs who seek a theocratic state, and would, according to their critics, confine Pakistan to a 9th-century Arab feudal pattern...
Chafee will lecture on "Human Rights and the Constitution," a version of the Social Science course which he has taught in the College for six years. He will trace the rise of human rights in English law, their incorporation in the U.S. Constitution, and their scope at the present time...
...students are invited to a "membership mixer" sponsored by the Harvard Zionist Society this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Harvard Student Union. There will be a brief round table discussion on the current crisis in the Middle East followed by a program of folk and social dancing...
...Author Faviell's dramatic documentation of the lawless legacy of the war and "the clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted in the subsoil of neo-Naziism−bad soil, even if not bad seed...