Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patrician who refused to ante up was promptly popped in jail. With these funds and others collected through high special taxes on "luxury items," Don Agustin was soon providing free meals for 4,000 townsfolk every day. In time, his "Social Benefits Fund" was expanded to cover an ambitious job-providing public-works program, which gave the town new streets, a better sewage system, a recreation hall for workers and even a new altar for the local church. Some of the funds were used to make a movie about the Santisteban way, which brought more funds into the town coffers...
Quality aside, the big trouble with Soviet education is that in overemphasizing specialization, it is turning out a generation almost wholly ignorant of the sort of liberal arts education known in the West. In the past 25 years, only 8% of the specialists graduated have majored in the social sciences. Of every four candidate degrees, three have been in science. Thus, though the 1954 graduating class was 40% smaller than that in the U.S., the Soviet is turning out twice as many engineers, 80% more agricultural specialists, three times as many physicians. In the long run, this...
...stags will be allowed at Radcliffe's annual Christmas formal Dec. 10, Social Chairman Helen Cutter '57 revealed last night. This decision reverses last year's policy of encouraging stags. "The experiment was not a failure," Miss Cutter explained, "It was just not much of anything...
...barring of stags has, however, raised financial problems, the Social Chairman admitted. Only two dormitories will be used instead of the customary three or four, and ticket prices must rise to $3.50 per couple, compared to $2.50 last year. "We were all right when we had stags in the winter," Miss Cutter said, "but we lost money when we eliminated them in the spring...
...Thought, sets out to explain our "grotesque underestimation of the true profundity of Communist thought" and finishes by making a severe attack on modern rationalism. He believes that Communism can be rejected only on emotional grounds and not rational ones, since the "Communist state is only the abstract social expression of the actual or potential situation inside each rationalist...