Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portraying a U.S. turned into a wasteland by repressive Soviet invaders, Amerika will undoubtedly provide support for conservatives who advocate constant vigilance against the Soviet threat. Indeed, the project was spurred by complaints about ABC's controversial antinuclear drama The Day After. In a 1983 newspaper column, Author and Critic Ben Stein (The View from Sunset Boulevard) proposed that to balance that film's allegedly liberal tilt the network ought to make a movie about what life in the U.S. would be like under a Soviet regime. Brandon Stoddard, then head of ABC movies and mini-series and now programming...
...CZECH author Milan Kundera once wrote that the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. He was remembering how the angry Western reaction to the 1968 Soviet invasion of his country had quickly cooled. Today, the struggle against forgetting has lost more ground--this time in a neighboring country, Poland...
...sourcebook, which was to be several hundred pages in length, was comprised of hundreds of articles from newspapers, magazines and books. Because most of these selections were copyrighted, each author charged a small fee for the use of their material...
...some, body building provides exercise for the mind as well as the body. Andrew Sullivan, a Lowell House tutor and author of an article on body building for The New Republic, finds the psychology of the newly-popular Harvard weight rooms fascinating. "They are fundamentally solitary, which is why I think [working out] is the ultimate yuppie 80s activity," Sullivan says. "The weight room is sublimated safe sex, and that's the reason why it's booming...
...longstanding commitment to activism spurred Jonathan Schell '65 to develop an interest in politics and public policy. The New Yorker editor and prize-winning author, who described himself as an "apolitical" Kirkland House student during his undergraduateyears at Harvard...