Word: socialism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...boom, relieved to be free of austerity, taking credit for the prosperity, the Tories have hesitated to air their anxieties too loudly. "This is the government that whispered 'Wolf!'" said one London wit. But last week, in the midst of London's gayest and most expensive social season since the war, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan cried it aloud...
...Tito's one-party rule. Thus Djilas brought Tito's wrath down on his head, lost his party rank and privileges. His punishment might have been worse. The fact that it was not probably stems from Tito's desire to stay on good terms with the social democratic parties of Western Europe: British Socialists, among others, urged Tito to go easy on Djilas...
...been lumped together with some of the most ill-considered inanities ever to be proposed in this community. Professors have very rarely labeled students as immature, except, perhaps, in the case of i.e. Clubs are not a "negative force in the college, deadening controversies which should be spontaneous, institutionalizing social conflicts, sapping intellectual morale ... in the undergraduate group as a whole." This is so untrue as to smack of totalitarian scapegoatism. Unless the editors of i.e. spend a great deal of time with "clubbies," it is difficult to see how the clubs can affect their morale. The clubs...
Algren, an honest writer, has written scenes in A Walk whose brutality and sordidness can hardly be equaled in contemporary fiction. That he means the book to be a caress for the most degraded members of society and a protest against social injustice is obvious. But in supposing that human virtue flourishes best among degenerates, Novelist Algren has dressed his sense of compassion in the rags of vulgarity...
...longest reddest nails of anyone who worked at Bergdorf Goodman and I used to stand elegantly in Bergdorf's marble rotunda . . . looking just as soignée as all get out . . . Every Friday they paid me fifty lovely dollars, less withholding, less social security, less retirement benefits, less hospitalization, and I could do just about anything I liked with the change. My husband, Bill . . . worked a little farther down Fifth [and] except for an occasional ink stain, his hands never got dirty...