Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest obstacle to Kim is the strength of South Korea itself. In the quarter century since the last war, Seoul has, except for airpower, reversed the military situation that existed in 1950 when Pyongyang had superior forces. The South has also surpassed the North in virtually every other aspect of life, especially the economy. South Korea has sustained one of the highest annual growth rates in the world-10%-since 1964. That is a long way from the days just after the Korean War, when the primitive rice-growing economy was shattered and the population on the verge of starvation...
Despite his penchant for authoritarianism, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee seems positively Jeffersonian compared with his counterpart north of the Demilitarized Zone. No other country can rival North Korea in its thoroughgoing control over every aspect of the lives of its 15 million citizens, or in the total deification of its leader, President Kim Il Sung...
...everywhere. Children reverently call him "our father," party officials refer to him as "the sun of our nation" and brides and grooms vow loyalty to him at wedding ceremonies. In Pyongyang, the 95 rooms and 2½ miles of exhibits at the Museum of the Korean Revolution glorify every aspect of Kim's life. All North Koreans are required to devote two hours daily and four on Saturday to the study of Kim's philosophy-an amalgam of Marxist classics and chuch'e-an emphasis on national self-reliance and independence...
...love). Indeed Corregidora could be dismissed as musings on the sordidness of some of life's more desperate characters if the novel did not manage to illuminate the wider question of the way all men need women. Mutt is the masculine principle in its surly, street-brother aspect. For him pride seems uppermost-the pain is mainly hers...
...lawyers who work for them and act charming and liberal out in the suburbs. Henry A. Kissinger '50 who bombs islands and hospitals to show that the United States is tough. For the people who get bombed or who work under the executives' direction, the theory that stresses this aspect of Harvard--its uses and importance in American society today--dwarfs the others in importance...