Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro has indefinitely put off the restoration of democracy-elections, a Congress, civil justice-pending a deep-surgery social revolution that he has had in mind for half a dozen years. He spoke little of this kind of revolution during his anti-Batista fight, which was financed by rich and professional Cubans sick of dictatorship. But the revolution is now plainly aimed at soaking the rich-business and landlords-and at favoring peasants (who helped Castro's war) and labor (which sat on its hands). Actions...
...Execution of 493 "war criminals," mostly Batista cops and soldiers. Last week a firing squad executed a marijuana peddler as a "social benefit." Castro says illegal gambling, misappropriation of government funds and counter-revolutionary activities (effective political opposition) could bring the same penalty. Total effect is to make opposition to Castro by speech or writing seem at least imprudent...
...have been shuffling across the country from Rostock to Dresden ever since last summer when the Ministry of Culture sighted in on rock 'n' roll. Enough of this "vulgar, Western riot music." decreed the Culture cubes. And the songwriters got their orders: Give us the stuff of social significance. So Leipzig's Rene Dubianski, one of East Germany's more enterprising pop composers, turned out a sort of double-time waltz. Dance Instructors Helmut and Christa Seifert fitted Dubianski's efforts with some quickstep choreography, and the comrades from the Culture Ministry announced a "Soviet...
Like a Picnic. Smith also specializes in covering the mob's social functions as an uninvited and unanimously undesirable guest. In 1956 he borrowed a room in a neighboring house to survey a gala Fourth of July garden party flung by No. 1 Mobster Tony Accardo. Stung by all the publicity, Accardo subsequently shifted the party to the home of his chauffeur...
Room at the Top (Romulus; Continental), a film version of the bestselling novel by Britain's John Braine (TIME, May 27, 1957), is a powerful, disturbing piece of cinema realism. On the face of it. the film is a social satire: a hilarious lampoon of British provincial society, an ironic study of Angry Young Manners and morals, a Swiftian extravaganza on the problems of a social climber in a society without stairs. But behind the comic mask there is the tragedy of social change, which is here expounded as the agony of moral growth, as the spiritual disaster...