Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER, by Calvin Trillin. Soft implosions of mirthful satire that trouble the social and political pretensions of those who would be with...
...Defense, handle the remainder. What is more, says the report, the financial and technical operations of the State Department, in its administration of the U.S. aid program, all too often get tangled up with its diplomatic responsibilities. To eliminate overlap, Rockefeller recommends that the U.S. establish an Economic and Social Development Agency in the office of the President. A separate Institute of Western Hemisphere Affairs would carry out actual aid programs...
...Kitty Duval (Susan Tyrrell), the stock prostitute with the heart of gold, has a luminous inner purity. When cops enter the bar and beat the black jazz pianist bloody, the scene has a truncheon-like impact that was totally lacking in 1939, when such events seemed isolated from any social context with which the audience was familiar. In those days, Saroyan was known as the "crazy man" of the theater. Now it seems more as if he had the intuitive sanity of a seer...
...neck) of the womb may develop in women at any age from the late teens on. Because of both its greater frequency and its threat to women in their childbearing years, this type has received intensive study. The American Cancer Society's Epidemiologist E. Cuyler Hammond lists several social as well as medical factors that go with high cervical cancer rates...
...make a witness to America and the world that not everyone approves of what the government is doing at this moment in history, that not everyone went along with the manipulated majority-but that is a sterile exercise in working out our own frustrations. The march is the social event of the season-but that isn't enough to justify the long drive (below the speed limit, so as to give no pretext for arrests...