Word: 1950s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Careerism is more apparent now as well. In the 1950s, women expected to be happy in life without having a career. Women now are almost as ambitious as men. It has become their duty. How strange that the women’s movement, inspired by the left and led by sometime Marxists like Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, has brought about a great increase in bourgeois careerism among the young...
...five rotation. The expression “Pedro, Lowe and pray for snow” hasn’t quite caught on like “Spahn, Sain and pray for rain” (in reference to the Milwaukee Braves’ Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain during the 1950s...
DIED. LUTHER HOLCOMB, 91, minister who worked for racial integration in the 1950s and '60s and who 40 years ago last week met President John F. Kennedy at the airport in Dallas and later announced to a shocked crowd that the President had been shot; in Henderson County, Texas...
...grandfather never met Mohandas Gandhi, but he did the next best thing. A photograph taken in the 1950s, which hung in a room in his mansion, showed him bashfully stepping forward to place a garland around the neck of Jawaharlal Nehru, the man Gandhi chose to lead India after independence from Britain. If Gandhi is India's founding saint, for those of my grandfather's generation, Nehru, their first Prime Minister, was only a shade removed. They called him the "architect of the nation" and believed he would heal India's divisions and transform their impoverished country into a proud...
...Tharoor points out, even during Nehru's own lifetime, his halo began to fade. His concentration on industrialization, rather than reforming the primitive agricultural sector, led to food shortages by the late 1950s. The state-controlled economy bred corruption and stagnation. Kashmir was another growing problem; as Tharoor notes, most Indian commentators blame Nehru for his decision to take the Kashmir dispute to the United Nations, thereby turning it from a domestic matter into an international issue. (Tharoor's day job is as an under secretary-general of the U.N.) Then, in 1962, the Chinese invaded India-a crushing humiliation...