Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least one Roman senator, grey, motherly, left-wing Socialist Angelina Merlin, this situation was a "social disgrace." A year ago last August, she introduced a bill to outlaw houses of prostitution in Italy...
...shifting tides of social acceptance were charted in the 1950 edition of Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer...
...Department's first venture into the cartoon field is a simply written, effectively illustrated biography of eight Americans: Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, Poet Walt Whitman, Social Worker Jane Addams, Scientist George Washington Carver, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The first shipment (65,000 copies), on the presses this week in Manhattan, will go to Viet-Nam. Later, 65,000 apiece will be sent to Indonesia, Korea and Thailand...
...spirited but good-natured debate with Burrhus F. Skinner's '31, professors of Psychology, Aiken attacked Skinner's recent noval "Walden Two" for ". . . distracting people from doing something about the present by proposing a hypothetical future." The debate, sponsored by the Student Association for Natural and Social Sciences, took place before a capacity crowd in Harvard Hall...
Aiken termed Skinner's book ". . . a political tract rather than a work of art." He asserted the basic fallacy in Skinner's argument was the pre-suppositions that the social scientists who would govern the Utopian state would be men of good will as well as men of knowledge...