Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originator of the experiment, associate social director John L. Tolleson said the failure "only proved that Summer School students here must fit into one of the following categories on Friday nights in August: already have something to do, have gone to the Cape or elsewhere, are studying or have become very inhibited...
...arrived at the complete rejection of Marxism-Leninism. I consider today that this doctrine is utterly obsolete, rigid and naive. It is utterly incapable of resolving the contradictions in society today, and, what is worse, it has led, continues to lead, and threatens to go on leading to frightful social tragedies...
...direction of Martha's growth is never really voluntary, it is not a "quest" at all-it is simply the inevitable path awaiting anyone who has attained for impressive level of self-consciousness and self-awareness. Similarly, if the reader rarely finds Mrs. Lessing's judgments on recent social and intellectual history surprising. I don't think it is because she ever resorts to the hackneyed or the cliched. Rather, we, like Martha, have become supremely conscious of events around us. It is the price one pays for attending all those ever-so-serious "rap sessions." And so Mrs. Lessing...
Critics of the program, which include the National Welfare Rights Organization, feel the main problem lies in the recruiting system. The actual communication with AFDC clients is done by the Department of Public Welfare social workers, after which a recipient is referred...
...state must rely solely on the social workers to bring attention to the program. Since there have been only 1955 referrals since October--which would fill only two-thirds of the available slots--the workers have obviously failed...