Word: socialistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both books may have an odd effect on readers, for they are set in the era before the modern welfare state-capitalist or socialist-encroached on the life of the individual. Whatever the merit of the "good old days," these stories seem to refute the notion that they were happier. In tale after tale, the plots turn on the tragedies of men and women shrugged off by society and left to the mercy of God and the charity of strangers...
...rights hailing the Soviet Union's "leadership" in this cause, advocating "class struggle," attacking American education as slanted to back the "dominant capitalistic order," and writing for a magazine that prominently advocated "a social upheaval that will plow up our present institutions to their very roots and substitute a socialist order for the present capitalist imperialist order...
...fearing Communism at home and abroad. His solution has been to excuse China, suppress information about happenings in Tibet, and to muffle India's outrage. But last week many Indians were wondering if Nehru's way was the right one. Their doubts were voiced by the Praja Socialist leader, Acharya Kripalani, who told Nehru in Parliament that "our efforts to save the friendship with Red China will result in this: they will only credit us with cowardice...
...orderliness, still precarious, is the accomplishment of President Romulo Betancourt, 51, the veteran politician who led Socialist-minded Acción Democrática (A.D.) to victory over a Communist-backed coalition at the polls. Betancourt must still walk a line between the Communists, who wield ominous power with the Caracas street mobs, and the armed forces, intact and distrustful of both A.D. and the Reds...
...Jewish characters in this book have succumbed to the alien and often tempting culture in which they live. Instead of being called Moses or Miriam, children are named Sheila, Kevin, Brenda, Neil. Scythelike noses have been bobbed into gentile unobtrusiveness, Talmudic scholars replaced by star athletes and Socialist singers...