Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first issue of the Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences has been distributed to the undergraduates of Adams House. The Journal, the first House-sponsored publication of its kind, is devoted to undergraduate papers in the social sciences...
...gentle humor, masterfully plays the Svengali to his pickup cast of raw amateurs-whom he inspires not to act but to live out their feelings with an artless art. Essentially, Neorealists De Sica and Zavattini have not changed their cinematic method, but they seem to have revised their social and moral philosophy. In their earlier films they raged at social injustice. In The Roof they are not really angry. Instead of asking the spectator to hate the world, they help him to love the people it hurts...
Aparajito (Indian). The brilliant second part (the first was Father Panchali) of a trilogy, made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes...
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. Six stories about social D.P.s-Jews trying to "pass," or at least belong, in the Gentile world...
...this, the movie starts off well enough; it is, at the beginning, an almost excellent satire of the social climber, given bite by the implication that the climber's position is not so much his own fault as that of society. And some of society's offenders appear more sharply in this light than they do in the book. The gruff nature of M. de Renal, for one, is brilliantly emphasized, providing a clear motive for Julien's well meditated social ascent. Then, too, the seduction scenes are fine stuff, exhibiting some well coordinated pussyfooting from bedroom to bedroom...