Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy Graham is a personable, modest and appealing young man who has wedded considerable dramatic and demagogic gifts with a rather obscurantist version of the Christian faith. His message is not completely irrelevant to the broader social issues of the day, but it approaches irrelevance...
Before Cynthia is through with Tom, he realizes that she is a literary climber who plans to use the prone bodies of her name-brand intellectual lovers as social steppingstones. By that time, Vera has joined the flophouse choir of ministering angels, and Tom, in an uncharacteristically humble mood, is ready to see the light of salvation. He sees it in a piece of transcendent silliness and highly dubious analogizing by a nun who tells Tom that his fellow poet's drunkenness, homosexuality and suicide were simply signs of his perfervid search for God, roughly comparable to the quest...
Died. Harley Martin Kilgore, 63, senior Democratic Senator from West Virginia, chairman since last year of the Senate Judiciary Committee; of a brain hemorrhage; in Bethesda, Md. A workhorse New and Fair Dealer, Kilgore sponsored measures favoring tighter monopoly controls, more social security coverage, looser immigration laws, was the only Senator from his state to be elected to three consecutive terms...
John J. Craven, Jr.--Leverett House; Harvard Band; Dudley Reporter; House Athletics; Harvard Pre-Medical Society; Harvard Social Relations Society; Ushers Club...
Albert B. Levin--Kirkland House; Student Council, Vice-President-President; P.B.H. Social Service Committee; Phi Beta Kappa; Signet Society; Junior Usher; Kirk-Comm...