Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little Norwegian fishing town of Sogne prepared for the biggest social event of its history. The local girl who made good use of her stay in the U.S., Anne-Marie ("Mia") Rasmussen, 21, and her fiance, Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of New York's Governor, seemed calmer than anyone else about their wedding. But to evade newshounds, they frequently took to the hills, abandoned Steve's telltale motorcycle for a car, fled from a restaurant right after the soup when a photographer surprised them at the table. Young Rockefeller's parents, once the employers...
Under the private school plan, all this would end abruptly-a critical loss of social services throughout Georgia. The private "system" would be strictly on its own, with only tuition grants for support. It could not possibly take over the public system's job. It could not buy enough school buildings from the state, because of reversion clauses specified by the original land donors; it could not begin to pay for new buildings. It could not keep teachers in the state during the changeover, or raise salaries high enough to attract new ones, or curb grafters with paws...
...week, listened to highly technical papers on such arcane subjects as the treatment of collagen diseases and new analogues of adrenocortical steroids. What made the gathering noteworthy was the identity of the sponsoring organization: the all-Negro National Medical Association. Founded in 1895 and long dedicated to breaking down social and professional prejudice and discrimination against Negro physicians, the N.M.A. could count its battle largely won. The next phase: improving its members' technical competence through a capsulized postgraduate course...
...Philadelphia gives a self-made man with culture gnawing at his pride the chance to score off his Ivy elitenik neighbors with a bottle of Mouton-Rothschild 1937. One of the best stories in the book, Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?, might draw a bravo from Marquand for its social surgery. At college, blueblooded Fred had got socially iffy Clayton into the best clubs. Years later, with the hourglass of fortune reversed, Fred needs work and Clayton is an advertising bigwig. At a sanctimonious lunch full of bogus bonhomie, Clayton offers Fred no job. and all but admits that...
...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience...