Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard drinker who often suffered bouts of melancholy, Brandt grew increasingly depressed. He kept the title of chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), but the popularity of his successor, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, further eroded Brandt's power within his own party. Still, he remained active as SPD chairman and president of the Socialist International until he suffered a heart attack...
...creative ability survived difficult circumstances, but her own success in writing does not free her from social conscience. She wishes to bring the freedom and spirit, which allowed her to write, to all the people; especially to women. Robert Coles said in a review of her book, Tell Me a Riddle, "She has been spared celebrity, but hers is a singular talent that will not let go of one; a talent that prompts tears, offers the artist's compassion and forgiveness, but makes plain how fierce the various struggles must continue...
...Tillie Olsen it is the natural need of the talented to express themselves. Social forces and norms create many barriers to the realization of talent. "Throughout the ages the greatest silencers have been: sex, race, and creed." She writes of the silences of ages past so that literature might be cracked open and the many missing experiences added to it. She ends her book Silences with a quote by Virginia Woolf which opens up literature to the realities and needs of everyone...
...Tillie's life, the circumstances which silenced her were concrete demands on her time: motherhood and work. However, she also recognizes that social norms and institutions often silence people indirectly by molding or corrupting the individual's creative will. Often the ideals and dreams which we have as children never leave that childrens' world. Somewhere along the path to maturity they are lost, forgotten, or die from lack of attention...
...proliferation of less ambitious studies and surveys, some of them amounting to market research, has occurred in the past few years. The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a nationwide study of income and education as determinants of happiness. The advertising firm Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn carried out a similar but broader survey to find out whether their clients' potential consumers "were happier ... than other segments of the population." Scientific studies of worker "contentment" have been going on for years, to be sure, but are not quite the same as the new wave of investigations into...