Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hindus themselves passed a law permitting a widow to live on in her late husband's house, though not to sell it. In 1949 Prime Minister Nehru sponsored a bill calling for vast and sweeping reforms of the whole Hindu social code, but the bill was too sweeping to get by. Since then Nehru has been picking away at his reforms piecemeal. Last year he eased the lot of India's wives in a reformed marriage act. Last week he introduced a Hindu inheritance act designed to give wives, widows and daughters the right to inherit family property...
Victory at the Polls. Stridently, the landlords appealed to the bishop. "That priest is a social agitator," said Daniel Perez, whose family has held the same land since the Spanish conquest. The bishop took heed. "If you run as a candidate, you will be suspended," he warned the priest. Zamorano-torn between his superior and his backers-decided to run. He won, last month...
...Louis le Guillant, director of the Center for Treatment and Social Readaptation at Villejuif, near Paris, reported in Presse Medicale that fully a third of the operators have feelings of "profound lassitude" or "veritable annihilation" at the end of a day. Some are so shaken that they take subways in the wrong direction or wander aimlessly in front of speeding autos. Many walk home, to settle their seething tempers before facing families. Few can concentrate on any intellectual activity. Reading is difficult. More than half cannot sleep restfully, and 38% suffer from full-scale insomnia. Other effects: depression and thoughts...
...memory. Thus the [young] girls can let themselves be caressed by the boys, and the old ladies can either dance frantically or stand there very dignified, completely stiff because they are dead-drunk. No punishment follows this sort of excitement, which is less dangerous for body, soul and social order than sensuality, intellectual passions, coquetterie, or jealousy...
...strictly excluded from the lives of whites, killed in the south and shunned in the North, and who, practicably speaking, have never vote nor representative in government . . . . This segregation is of a political, psychoanalytical, and meta-physical nature. In a land which is so proud of what it calls "social mobility" which becomes more and more mythical as things become stabilized an according to unwritten law which ten to assert once and for all the supremacy of Nordics, of whites over blacks, of Protestants over all the rest--each ethnic group owes it to itself to prove its often imaginary...