Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberal democracy, the ultimate triumph of which Western leaders since the seventeenth century have taken for granted, is thus mortally challenged by a new social and political order that bids persuasively for the favor of mankind with dynamic new techniques of education, ideology, and technology...
...with all this, one may expect some of the groups as yet "underprivilleged" economically or in terms of social status to dissent from an increasing national emphasis on economic and political concerns abroad. There may also be resistance from some people of old American stock and of moderate means whose sense of economic and social security has been challenged by the rise of vigorous newcomers whose families came more recently from Europe; similarly, from those who maintain unreasoning resistance to the ideal of equal rights for all, regardless of race or color...
This sketch of the social and economic groups which may merge into a new majority alignment or dissent from it is necessarily brief, incomplete, and tentative. It is clear in any event that neither of the two political parties can in itself provide the completely effective political instrument for such a majority. As with the earlier shifts in basic alignment we have discussed, a new grouping that is really adequate to the world challenge is almost certain at many points to cut across existing party lines and the narrower interests now reflected in them...
...question of dropping the indictments against Furry was raised when Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 acquitted Leon J. Kamin '48, former instructor in Social Relations, also charged with contempt for refusing to answer questions about his associates on the same grounds as Furry had used...
Glen W. Bowersock of Eliot House, a concentrator in Classics; Thomas J. Hegarty of Eliot House, History; Alan I. Levenson of Lowell House, Social Relations; Charles P. Segal of Leverett House, Classics; Kenneth I. Shine of Adams House, Biochemical Sciences; Charles P. Sifton of Eliot House, History and Literature; Peter N. Stearns of Eliot House, History; and David C. Williams of Kirkland House, Chemistry...