Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cries for Relief. Europeans, putting on a more hopeful look than the airpower-minded U.S., also see the announcement as proof of their basic assumption since Geneva: that the Soviet no longer fears attack from the West and plans none of its own. Already, German Social Democrats and Free Democrats are demanding "a serious review" of West Germany's projected rearmament. In Britain a group of 55 Laborites led by Nye Bevan declared that the reduction "made it clear that the challenge of Communism is economic, social and political-not military," and demanded the end of conscription and reduced...
...poke his head out of his shell and to take a look around. And high time it is, too." Added the Rev. Thurston Davis, Editor of America: "Catholics, of course, think and judge alike on matters of faith and morality. But on all other matters, usually of a social, economic or cultural nature, in which the church has taken no authoritative position, she can be said not only to tolerate debate, but actually to encourage and urge it. The fact that we see eye to eye on the mysteries of the incarnation, the redemption and the divine trinity does...
...church as often as young people because they cannot afford the collection plate, reported Long Beach (Calif.) Sociologist George M. Logan after querying 30,000 elderly persons. "More than half reported attending church less frequently than they did ten years ago. Transportation difficulties and low income combined with social pressure for financial support of the churches have offset attendance...
...thanks to the generosity of one anonymous donor, they got control of the present Brattle Theater, rebuilt in 1890 by the Cambridge Social Union to provide a social center for Harvard and Radcliffe. The older part of the building had been a Lutheran church for many years. And the present location of the art gallery and of the Club Casablanca was used occasionally as a police...
Another Charles River social season closed last Saturday evening, as seventy or so hardy regulars watched the finish of the Cornell-Harvard lightweight crew race in front of Dunster house...