Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casey at the Bat" [TIME, Nov. 15]: Being an Irishman, or partly one, I find it slightly painful [that] Sean O'Casey . . . respects a political organization which has slain and tortured uncounted millions all over their world-with their "inexhaustible energy, the irresistible enthusiasm of their Socialist efforts" . . . O'Casey may be a "roguish wordmonger," but so was Goebbels and Pravda ... He is entertaining, but he is also bitter . . . There is too much of his "failing desires" to make him palatable to anyone who knows there...
Blank says proudly: "I am working class." But last week Germany's Socialist Party and the powerful West German Trade Unions Federation would have none of Blank or his army. Hundreds of Protestant ministers joined in petitions against rearmament...
Inside hundreds of homes and offices in Tito's Communist capital of Belgrade last week, there was darkness at noon. The dictator had gone too far too fast in trying to turn his peasant country into a Socialist workers' paradise. Belgrade's superannuated and overloaded power stations first began to falter and fail last January. At that time the city was arbitrarily divided into three zones, each of which was cut off from all power supply for four hours twice a week. Every other day private homes all over the city were kept in the dark...
...start of the twentieth century, according to Friedrich, both the bourgeoisie and the socialist and communist reformers believed that their respective philosophies, combined with technological improvements, could bring happiness to most of mankind. "But the bourgeoisie and the socialists have now had their chance, and are disillusioned," he said...
Giuseppe Sotgiu, 52, once a poor but very clever lad from Sardinia, had worked his way through school and taken a degree in jurisprudence with the highest honors. A onetime Socialist newspaperman and then a law professor, he emerged as a Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored for his anti-Fascist record. It was he who acted as defense counsel for the journalist who first published the allegation that Wilma Montesi had been murdered. At that time Giuseppe Sotgiu indignantly declaimed: "This Montesi case stigmatizes a whole putrid and corrupted society, a privileged class which is perverse...