Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thinking) Peale. His approach is 'How to Get Rich Through Prayer!' . . . The books which bring comfort alone are never good books." Of fickle U.S. literary critics, many of whom spat contemptuously (TIME, May 28) on Algren's uncomforting Wild Side: "They like to think virtue and social status go hand in hand...
...Louchheim. "When he is in Bloomfield Hills," she wrote, "Saarinen works at the office until at least midnight . . . Unlike the elder Saarinen's studio-house, which kept the family working and playing together and was a convivial center for artists, actors and musicians, the younger Saarinens allocate social life primarily to their infrequent vacations . . . Very occasionally, in a musing, somewhat rueful tone, Eero Saarinen questions whether he has not let architecture devour too much of his life . . . But one wonders if there could have been any other...
...Felisa Rincón de Gautier. The lamb is not only the symbol of Puerto Rico but of the Chicago church's potent and growing organization of Puerto Ricans, the Knights of St. John. Founded in 1954, the Knights now number more than 1,000 families and sponsor social and recreational activities, run a hostel for newly arrived Puerto Ricans, a legal and medical-aid program, and are trying to set up a revolving fund to lend money at low interest...
...Watson had only been a business man, he would have been famous enough. But IBM was only a fraction of his true measure. He was one of the first of a new breed of U.S. businessmen who realized that their social responsibilities ran far beyond their own companies. A man with consuming interest in virtually every area of human endeavor, he had a rare ability to translate his thoughts into action. His entry in Who's Who in Amer ica was for years the longest of all, but, unlike many joiners, he worked hard at everything he gave...
Superficially, says Wilson, the Outsider is just a social misfit, a "hole-in-corner man." In novels he sits in his room by the hour, spends days observing other men's lives. In real life an Outsider type like Van Gogh lived 29 of his 36 years before he knew himself to be a painter. In a sense, the Outsider is a man waiting for his authentic vocation. But why does he turn in disgust from the "practical" house, wife-and children-minded world of his "bourgeois" (no Marxist connotations) fellow man? For Wilson, Nijinsky summed...