Word: socio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists could measure their strength by pulling a huge sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade asked her, she could translate a whole...
...Daughter (MGM) dilutes the never-too-potent subacids of J. P. Marquand's socio-political satire into the sort of eyewash that is the chief ingredient of every "woman's picture." Marquand fans may be surprised at how easily the acid lost its effect; most moviegoers are sure to blink unhappily at what is left...
TIME made a similar study of college graduates in 1940 with the research tools then available. It was a good try, but it did little more than touch on some of the basic socio-economic characteristics of college graduates. This time we are trying to find out their characteristics by the kind of people they are: whether they are liberal or conservative in thought, whether they are participating actively in community leadership or have reneged on this aspect of their obligation to society...
Speaking at Phillips Brooks House on the Socio-Psychological Problem of Alcoholism, Bales declared that the reason behind the craving for drink goes further than a palate with a high octane rating. strained family relations, with possibly an underlying ocdipus complex, and assorted worries all account for the alcohol addict...
This new hybrid, which attempts to solve a alongfelt need for a breaking donw of the meaningless barriers which separate the various fields of psychological and socio-cultural science, was produced by combining with the old Sociology Department a sizable part of the Department of Psychology and some courses in Cultrual Anthropology, chiefly those of a physiological nature, were bound up into a smaller department, and shunted over to the natural science area where they belonged...