Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present position in the political spectrum, even Soustelle himself cannot define it. "In social matters," he said last week, "I could today be classified as a complete man of the left. But I do not admit that to be a good republican one must deny one's national feelings." The issues that once separated right from left in France no longer seem of primary importance to Jacques Soustelle. What is of primary importance...
Brazil's presidential election is still 14 months away but, as in the U.S., candidates are running and interest is high. In Rio de Janeiro last week, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott. 64, the Minister of War and standard bearer for President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democrats, hopped on the stump and drew howls from the opposition. Though the old soldier had just arrested a colonel for getting into politics, he himself appeared in uniform and armpit-deep in medals. The opposition wailed again when Kubitschek handed the powerful Ministries of Public Works and Justice-Interior...
Historian Webb sees the country's next frontier in the South. "Forget the misfortune and injustice of the past," he told the Texas Council for Social Studies last June. "If I could, I would convince the Southern people that their future is brighter than it has ever been in history. The South is the one region whose resources have been largely undeveloped and unexploited. It is not only possible but it is also probable that this next century will belong to the South...
...buxom, bustling New Jersey Congresswoman for 26 years (1925-51), first woman Democrat elected to Congress (first Congresswoman: Montana's Republican Jeannette Rankin-1917-19, 1941-43), a scrappy debater, called by her respectful colleagues "Aunt Mary," who championed her political sponsor, New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, and social legislation; in Greenwich, Conn. An ardent New Dealer, she fought tooth and nail for the 1938 wage-hour bill, chairmaned the House Labor Committee from 1937-47, insisted on her dignity and equality in the halls of Congress (once when a House member referred to her as a lady...
Society preceded sodomy. While Proust pursued halfhearted studies for the law and the diplomatic service, he put his passion into social climbing. The life of the salons provides Author Painter with the most fascinating and amusing section of his book. The Parisian wits skewered each other like shish kebab. At Mme. Aubernon's (a fat, lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied...