Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homes that can no longer take care of them. Some are the sons and daughters of alcoholics and criminals ; others have been juvenile delinquents; all arrive lost and afraid. For these, Graham offers no elaborate psychiatric routine. Its whole approach is so straightforward and simple as to make a social worker despair. "The average kid who's had the rug pulled out from under him," says Director Allen Thomas, "is not sick. The experts have scared the wits out of laymen. The best way to treat a child, it seems to me, is to push here, guide there, play...
...many a non-Catholic eye, Roman Catholics in the U.S. have never been so well off. In numbers they have grown to 32 million (from 18 million in 1925). In social prestige they stand high. The old stigma of being an immigrant church is largely a thing of the past. But these gains have exacted a steep price from U.S. Catholics. They face the same problems of modern living as everyone else, but the problems are harder to handle within Catholic doctrine. With integration, the old ethnic units are breaking up, mixed marriages are on the rise, and the social...
...cost of the gains has been totted up in an important book published this week. The American Catholic Family (Prentice-Hall; $7.65), the result of five years' work by Jesuit Father John L. Thomas, 45, assistant director of the Institute for Social Order at St. Louis Uni versity, is the first detailed study of Catholic family life...
...Divorce. Instead of treating marriage as a social institution, let alone a divine one, U.S. public opinion "tends to regard marriage as a private affair." As divorce becomes more and more accepted as a solution to marriage failures, Catholics tend to feel more and more hardship in denying divorce...
...center of violent feelings-envious, disapproving, realistic and cynical." To overcome these feelings, he must "rehabilitate himself by doing his job better than the competitors on his own level." Actually, the bride's background counts for little: "The man who marries the boss's daughter is buying social, rather than economic, success. Business success depends not on whom a man marries, but on what his talents, energies, and single-mindedness of purpose are. In short, the wife can be useful, but it is the husband who makes or breaks his business career...