Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard of this well-being is itself the product of a capitalist economy that constantly encourages increasing consumption of unnecessary commodities in order to maintain its growth, stability and profits. It is time to begin the shift from this capitalist system and the consumption it demands to a socialist economy. Capitalism cannot fairly distribute increasingly scarce resources, like oil; neither can it use them to plan production in most people's interests. Socialism at least has the potential to bring an equitable distribution of resources. And although the U.S. may have a lower standard of living, it will...
...question doesn't need to be answered; the worker is one of Fellini's eccentrics, tolerated in a good-natured way but not respected. Aurelio's wife locks him inside the house on the day II Duce comes to speak so he can't walk about in his "socialist necktie." The fascists shoot the record player he's planted in the bell-tower and march off to the bars congratulating themselves on their bravery...
...also decide how to dispose of the deposed King's property. In addition to the 60-room royal palace in Athens, he owns a 10,600-acre estate at Tatoi, about 20 miles north of the capital, and a $3 million summer palace on the island of Corfu. Socialist Party Supporter George Romeos has proposed that the Corfu palace be turned into a university. In an outburst of republican ardor, Center Union Party Member Antonis Iassonides suggested that "there would be no great difference if it were blown up." Although Constantino is anxious to end his seven-year exile...
...Genteel Socialist. He was the only child of affluent German-Jewish parents (his father was a successful clothing manufacturer in New York City). Walter's early memories were of brownstone comforts, horse-and-buggy rides through Central Park, frequent trips to Europe. He entered Harvard with the class of 1910. There he absorbed William James' challenge to test all hand-me-down truths against the pragmatic standards of experience and reason...
Lippmann left Cambridge a genteel Socialist, worked for a year on Lincoln Steffens' muckraking Everybody's Magazine. His first book, A Preface to Politics, was written after he served a brief stint as secretary to the Rev. George R. Lunn of Schenectady, N.Y., one of America's first Socialist mayors. But no dogma could contain Lippmann for long. He soon abandoned Socialism-but not all of its causes-and in 1914 became one of the founders of the liberal New Republic...