Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made his mark is caught up in an eternal process," says Biographer Maurois. "The social machine, so cunningly contrived, passes him from cylinder to cylinder, from roller to roller, from ball to ball, from dinner to dinner, and, with each day that passes, flattens him out a little more." The genius of the Romantic movement had "lost his way" and might never have found it again if the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon (which Hugo fought in the Assembly, then in the streets) had not caused him to flee into exile...
Stripped of his social functions, his sprigs of parsley, his actresses and courtesans, Hugo flourished in his romantic role of "Great Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...
Coca Colas are still permitted, but the University has announced that "the serving of alcoholic beverages at social functions is prohibited. . ." In announcing the ban, Brown's Dean Bergethon said that he hoped the ruling would "strengthen the hand of students who oppose this kind of behavior...
...without violence. So the Cangaceiros have plenty of violence, most of it superfluous and therefore especially appealing. The good folk have a fairly hard time of it; in fact, they are almost invariably killed, or branded. And to heap indignity upon extinction, they are not even allowed the social graces of the Cangaceiros, who are tricked out in the fanciest rigs since Desiree (Napoleonic pampa hats and costume, bejeweled cartridge belts) and who have a neat back-in-the-saddle song which, fortunately, they sing quite...
Taking its cue from PBH's Mental Hospitals Committee, the Social Relations Department is considering plans for a seminar in abnormal psychology next year with mental patients as "laboratory studies." Each student would work twice a week rehabilitating one patient at the Waltham Hospital under the supervision of a trained social worker. Seminar discussions, assigned reading and research would then relate the patient's own problems to broader psychological theory. For the first time, students would have concrete "field experience" to supplement their text-book psychology. At the same time, they would meet with psychiatrists and observe the mental hospital...