Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conceivably, one could extend Estey's ideas into areas of social service, medical experimentation--those varieties of public service which conscientious objectors now fulfill under the label "alternative service." Our present concepts of manpower, when one considers the possible use of men now deferred, seem most unimaginative...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant restatement of the timeless truth that a social problem is a moral problem, which can only have a religious solution...
...race of hardy men who for centuries wrested a precarious living from the offshore fishing banks, Newfoundlanders are turning away from the sea to more rewarding work ashore. Now the island's pulp and paper mills, its mines, its green harvest of federal social welfare payments, and the payrolls of four U.S. air and naval bases all contribute more to the economy than the island's once all-important fisheries. Before confederation, Newfoundlanders earned an average of $150 each per year; they have boosted this to $775, but their standard of living still lags far behind that...
...Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some acid sidelights on the publishing business. In one scene, an ambitious junior editor is building up an awful novel to please a top publisher ("who wore knickers to the office...
...another, but they did so in the grand manner. There was Eustace Vanbrugh (born 1834), a truly Victorian loony with an army of servants to command. (Linklater suggests that the servant class has disappeared only to re-emerge as civil servants taking revenge, in the name of socialism, on their former masters.) Eustace's lunacy revolved around the theological implications of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He would bribe maidservants with a guinea in order to investigate whether or not they had tails: discovery of a vestigial caudal appendage of course would help the Darwinian faction...