Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unexpected but necessary increase would force a curtailment elsewhere in a budget that is already relatively lean in domestic areas. Thus the restriction could severely limit the Administration's ability to deal with emergencies and handle such "uncontrollable spending" as interest on the national debt and Social Security benefits...
Nixon has been walking a thin line between the savers, like Mills, and the spenders, who want to devote more resources to social programs. Above all, he fears that excessive stringency would "overkill" the economy and cause a recession like the three that occurred during the Eisenhower years. The President also wants to avoid precipitous major slashes in federal spending. These would hike the unemployment rate and put an increased number of Negroes-always the last to be hired and the first to be fired-out of work. He is unwilling to curb inflation at the price of social upheaval...
Twice Forced To Leave. Tony Shub's family background may have made the Soviets especially wary of him. His father, David Shub, 81, is a Russian-born Social Democrat who was expelled from Russia by Czarist officials during the liberal agitation before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Settling in the U.S., the elder Shub wrote Lenin, still one of the authoritative books on the revolutionary's life. When ordered out of Russia by a Foreign Ministry official last week, the younger Shub replied: "My father was also twice forced to leave the country by the Russian authorities...
...empty waiting for real life to come, which makes for student rebellions. This can be seen from the fact that most rebellious students, here and abroad, are either undergraduates, or those studying the social sciences and humanities. There are no militants among students of medicine, engineering, the natural sciences. They are busy with doing things that are important to them, they are working in the laboratory and at their studies...
...moment by moment to change the film's emotional emphasis. As in Birth of a Nation, even single shots are given several emotional directions by the placement and movement of the several characters. The subject of this drama is individual sentiment; its type, melodrama, whether historical (Mary of Scotland), social (Tobacco Road), or familial (How Green). Society exists only as the sum of individuals' actions and sentiments...