Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career as lawyer, civic leader and judge was almost preordained by Greenville's social order, as are his friends: bankers, lawyers and old-line business leaders. They meet each other in private homes or such white, Christian islands as the Green Valley Country Club. The judge's relationships outside his own class-and race-have been few and distant...
...everywhere, while the country's 200,000 grocers disappear at a rate of 2,000 a year. In 1958, France's small businessmen managed to quash a move to make cash registers mandatory-and thus make tax cheating more difficult. Lately, however, they have suffered only setbacks. Social security payments have been made compulsory for the self-employed (cost: some $520 a year). Last August, Pompidou devalued the franc -and dispatched inspectors to make sure that shopkeepers did not simply raise their prices...
...carving new legal ground. Says Vermont Lawyer (and ex-Governor) Philip Hoff: "Business has learned that it can't go ahead, carte blanche, because it can be delayed for years by a lawyer committed to saving the environment." Adds E.D.F.'s Victor Yannacone: "Every piece of enlightened social legislation that has come down in the past 50 or 60 years has been preceded by a history of litigation. It is the highest use of the courtroom-even when we lose-to focus public attention and disseminate information about intolerable conditions...
...away a good part of the audience, never allowing it to number over 100 and sometimes as low as 40. He also has a very precise idea about what that audience should be like: "We do not cater to the man who goes to the theater to satisfy a social need for contact with culture: in other words, to have something to talk about to his friends and to be able to say that he has seen this or that play and that it was interesting. Nor do we cater to the man who goes to the theater to relax...
...clasp a brush or wield a tube of paint. A reaction was inevitable, though no one dreamed its name would be Pop, its inspiration advertising and comic strips. To many, the antidote was distinctly more unpleasant than the malady. But there were moments of high humor and certainly social awareness. A rich, fat and powerful consumer society was rich, fat and powerful enough to accept its own image, no matter how ugly it turned out to be. Perhaps because the image was so powerful, the movement was unusually short-lived. A scant decade after its birth, Geldzahler observes: "It seems...