Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain of my works of the past years I must admit that even in them has been reflected the negative influence." Calling for "a fire of color, powerful, elevated color chords," Gerasimov admitted that "the heritage of impressionism can be used for service to socialist realism." Comradely discipline and social consciousness still rate high. But, said he: "In the inner world of the individual we are far behind the old masters . . . One must not artificially force a theme on artists alien to their line of creation...
...door a crack to modern art (at least up to 1917) and admitting that "both still lifes and landscapes have every right to develop in Soviet art," Gerasimov also left the door ajar for himself. Privately Gerasimov has been turning out a crop of voluptuous nudes with no social import whatsoever...
Most companies nowadays work many months in advance when they plan to move into small towns which have had no previous experience with big payrolls. Executive teams go in to discuss economic and social problems with civic officials and community leaders, show films to familiarize residents with their operations...
...change in company towns stems from the social and economic maturity of U.S. industry. Community and employee relations are as important a factor in modern management as raw materials, markets and transportation. Most companies today bend over backward to be good neighbors in their communities. Industry's new attitude to community relations was simply defined by Troy Blanket Mills' Vice President E. J. Russell, whose company has been the only industry in Troy, N.H. for 75 years. Said he: "People like to be treated like people...
...Baba teeters girlishly between the superstitious past (as a child she had retched over a dead fish's eye, which she tried to swallow in order to summon up strange powers) and the dull independent future, symbolized by her dull, enlightened father, who talks like an instructor in social science...