Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeed in breaking the peace . . . Meanwhile, the society of free nations must retain the power needed to deter aggression. We recognize that such power should never serve as a means of national aggrandizement but only as an essential shield . . . We shall help ourselves and others to peace, freedom and social progress, maintaining human rights where they are already secure, defending them when they are in peril, and peacefully restoring them where they have temporarily been lost...
...attack on Congress Party corruption, Bhave outlined his latest solution for India's troubles: "The existing form of government must be liquidated at an early date and replaced by gram raj [village government]." The social structure would be recast by having everyone over 21 years elect "Bhoodan committees" to redistribute all the land, according to need based on the size of families. Though there is precedent for such ideas in the teachings of Gandhi, Bhave had found other sympathizers for his leveler's commonwealth. Said he: "The Communists have assured me of their cooperation...
...effortlessly as water conforms to the shape of a pitcher. He has been called, among other things, "leftist" and "conservative." Neither tag really fits, but conservative is probably the less inaccurate of the two. His presidential campaign slogan was unemotional and unglamorous; he promised, not a political reformation or social transformation, but "Power, Transportation and Food...
Explained Dr. Will Menninger: the foundation is deeply interested in industrial psychiatry; there are only three full-time and a handful of part-time psychiatrists in U.S. industry today, though 70% or more of all dismissals are the result of "social incompetence," and only 30% are caused by technical incompetence...
...expose the unexamined errors of our contemporaries in all that concerns their values, loyalties, way of life and assumptions in connection with the novels they read, the plays and films they see, the music they play and hear, the buildings in which they live, work and worship, the social symbols they revere, the dreams and fables, indeed the myths they feed upon...