Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare plot, however, serves only as a frame on which the playwright hangs his opinions on social reform, religion, and the class struggle. At times, as in the first scene of act two, O'Casey ignores the story altogether and inserts songs, a ballet, and passages of almost pure lyrical poetry. As a result, the play generates considerable emotional intensity but lacks direction...
...calculates that as many as a quarter of a million Saudi Arabians may actually be living still in slavery. Yet, taking some sketchy budget figures published a few years ago, Shwadran notes that royal household affairs were allotted $27.9 million, compared with $10.7 million for public health, education and social services combined. The estimates also listed $36 million for defense, $27 million to pay debts, and $44 million for "General Development "without, says Shwadran, providing any "clue as to whether it was for wealth-producing projects or some capricious projects of the King's." Shwadran believes that the actual...
...community integration has not proved popular. It breaks a paternalism that Creole workers have come to like, and it bucks the Latin American tradition of centralized rather than community government. The plan is also open to the charge that Creole is evading established responsibilities. The company replies that "social progress is accelerated by the encouragement of individual initiative," and insists that it will still pay its bills, e.g., tuition for workers' children. Company officials patiently look forward to the time when onetime company towns will be self-governing communities of self-respecting homeowners, and Creole will get credit...
...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...
...juvenile delinquent be "cured" simply by hard work and discipline? Many social workers think not. The average delinquent, they argue, needs psychiatric care as well. Recently, Britain's penal authorities have been operating on the opposite theory: at "detention centers" at Kidlington, near Oxford, and Goudhurst in Kent, they have been putting delinquents through a rugged "basic training" course with surprising success. Last week, despite scattered criticism, the Prison Commission went ahead with plans to establish two new detention centers...