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...repressive Communist dictatorships, constitutional republics and hereditary monarchies. Socialism is a flag of convenience that accommodates technocrats and market-minded economists, that allows fascist-type dictators or small-time Bonapartes to perpetuate themselves in power. It is politically chic to use the socialist label. Observes French Political Philosopher Raymond Aron: "In most countries, socialism carries the connotation that whatever is good is socialist, whatever is bad originates in capitalism." Adds Nobel-Prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "[For many], socialism implies egalitarianism and that people are living for society, while capitalism has been given the connotation of materialism, 'greedy,' 'selfish,' 'self-serving...
...They blame it for inflation and unemployment and think it's time for a change." Political Scientist Raymond Aron concurred: "The left has not necessarily lost the election. The country is in a bad mood and tired of seeing the same faces in government. Indeed, the Socialists might even get more votes if they are not linked to the Communists...
...Composer Aron Copland and pianist Leo Smit will discuss the music they will play in concert on Wednesday night at a "Learning from Performers" lecture in the Kirkland Junior Common Room at 4 p.m. The lecture is free, but tickets are required and can be obtained at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office starting today...
...high and wide that it seemed like a parody of an American success story. And he kept selling records, well over 500 million in all. The music got slicker and often sillier, turned from rock toward rhinestone country and spangled gospel. Only the pace remained the same. Elvis Aron Presley always lived fast, and last week, at the age of 42, that was the way he died...
West German Defense Expert Lothar Ruehl shares Aron's exasperation with Europe's recent political lethargy. He believes that the ending of the Viet Nam War has at least shocked Europeans out of the comfortable belief that the U.S. will intervene anywhere and at any cost on their behalf. In a clear reference to the American retreat from Saigon, former Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani observed that the current "international situation is a warning to peoples who want to remain free to rely first of all on themselves, and not to tie their salvation exclusively to the help...