Word: berger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a group of a few hundred kids who are very active in politics," says Noah M. Berger '89, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), a group of divestment activists who constructed a shantytown in the Yard last April...
...With a few exceptions, most of the people who are political are liberal or progressive, with a few nutty conservatives," Berger says. The Cambridge native is also vice president of the Democratic Club and organizer of Students for Bachrach, which campaigns for State Sen. George Bachrach. Bachrach is battling Joseph P. Kennedy II for the the Eighth Congressional District seat, a post once occupied by Kennedy's uncle John F. Kennedy '40 and now held by Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill...
...reason that private enterprise is on the rise is clear. While capitalist nations, including the U.S. and the emerging countries of Asia, have been highly successful at creating wealth, socialism has largely proved an economic drag. Says Peter Berger, a sociologist at Boston University: "Socialist societies have been dramatically outperformed by any number of successful capitalist countries, especially in Asia...
...Berger strengthens his arguments with vivid prose. No windy academic generalities here. He likes sudden beginnings: "The day before yesterday a close friend of mine killed himself by blowing his brains out." He describes Albrecht Durer's view of the Apocalypse as the day when "the sun would go out, and the heavens would be rolled up and put away like a manuscript." He reports that the mosques of Istanbul are "the colour of ripe honeydew melons." He encapsulates a special quality in Bonnard's art by calling it "an art about cultivating one's own garden...
Admirers of Berger's writings need be told only that a new book of his is available. Strangers to that oeuvre should introduce themselves to a resourceful mind passionately at work...