Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John XXIII. It was John's revolution that he inherited, with John's open, hopeful stamp of approval upon it. In the years that followed, the movement that John called aggiornamento, or modernization, became part of a revolution larger than John had foreseen-a tumultuous moral and social upheaval around the world. Both inside and outside the church, old values were questioned, traditional authority challenged...
...became strained. Pius again promoted Montini in 1952, making him a Pro-Secretary of State,* but the Pope and his protege were drifting apart politically. Pius was so hostile to Communism that he sometimes trembled when he spoke of it; Montini, on the other hand, was sensitive to the social and economic distress of postwar Italy and elsewhere, and more understanding of those who were driven to radical solutions. When Pius named Montini Archbishop of Milan in 1954 but failed to give him the Cardinal's red hat that normally went with the see, some Vatican insiders viewed...
...THINGS left to us from the generally stagnant era of English history called the Restoration is Restoration comedy. Playwrights such as Congreve, Vanbrugh and William Wyncherly fashioned a brand of theatrical social satire using the raw materials afforded by courtly foppery and greed and the devil-take-all decadence of the urban upper classes. Relying heavily on wit, bawdry, and ludicrously fashioned images, these plays were often quite vicious in their criticism of London society despite the fact that many of the playwrights were a part of the madhouse themselves...
...their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs." Perhaps readers have wearied, Vidal suggests, of novelists who insist that only the immigrant story deserves to be told or devote themselves to tedious proclamations of selfhood while ignoring the class whose legend is writ in the Social Register. Despite his considerable failings as a novelist, Auchincloss does for that class what John O'Hara did for the country-club set: observes its workings with the tireless zeal of a behavioral scientist...
...Rector of Justin, illuminates a gallery of worldly, dominating men whose characters might have been formed on the playing fields of Groton. But in The Country Cousin, the obligatory references to that world-St.Paul's and Yale; a Whistler in the drawing room; decrepit aunts given to decrying socialism, Jews and Roosevelt-simply fail to summon a social realm that James and Wharton made live...