Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickness continues the cry for doctors and medicine will grow louder. Private enterprising publishers who fear enterprising unionism might accede to existent social values and avoid an other-wise inevitable decline. But enlightened entrepreneurs are the exception. It is probably true, as some say, that given the American environment, only a metropolitan daily labor-owned press frankly speaking from a labor viewpoint can counteract ostensibly public-interested press actually talking the language of business. Ideally, the goal does not lie in this course, but rather in Winn's independent citizen venture. Under the leadership of Marquis W. Childs, for example...
...Social Scientists will seek to discover how each city looks at itself and at other parts of the world. From this data the group hopes to find out why conflicts between various nations arise...
These changes are the first of a general plan to make the Union a more pleasant social center. When the Government I and Economics I reserved reading material was moved to Lamont Library three weeks ago, the problem of what to do with the Union library came...
Hirsh says that there is now a U.S. total of some 3,750,000 "excessive drinkers." Another 56,000,000-odd are social drinkers, who can take it or leave it alone. About 60% of the problem drinkers are "symptomatic drinkers," i.e., they are mentally ill to start with, and drinking is a symptom, not a cause of their illness. With the other 40%, the trouble seems to start with their drinking rather than their personalities. They may be "occupational drinkers" (e.g., bartenders, salesmen, newspaper reporters), who fall into the habit because of their jobs; or "compensatory drinkers...
Long before the end, readers may ask themselves the same question. The Hollow of the Wave fails to explain the social dilemma of its drifting characters and falls equally short of lighting up the sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...