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Many modern historians assume that history flows glacially in a certain direction, and that it is their function to chart that flow, toward liberty, or capitalism, or the national state. Foucault claims, by contrast, that there are sharp breaks-"discontinuities," he calls them-separating one historical period from another. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: France's Philosopher of Power | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Inside the building, a Spartacist League speaker outlined his group's contention that Solidarity, the Polish independent workers' union, intends to restore capitalism to Poland. On the steps of Harvard Hall, about eight Spartacist members were meanwhile preventing about a dozen Solidarity supporters from attending the 8 p.m. speech, which...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Edelstein and Andrew C. Karp, S | Title: Spartacists Argue With Demonstrators | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

In the first book-length American poem, Walt Whiman, with a great sense of how comic the idea was, made love to all of us, to the whole future. We could, he said, make the future now with our imaginations--like the man in the TV ad says today. McMichael...

Author: By Rebecca Ostriker, | Title: The There That Is There | 11/3/1981 | See Source »

Stung by mounting criticism and concerned about a declining economy, the ruling directorate declared a state of economic emergency in September, banning strikes, profiteering and the distribution of news or information deemed to be injurious to the economy. The regime was also worried about a possible counterinsurgency led by supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Crackdown | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

No, such an organization cannot be called religious. The Moonies are a modern and heartless corporation. There are hundreds of millions of dollars involved in the operations of this cult. Each of the flower-vendor members can earn well over a thousand dollars a week. As well, the young members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unification Church | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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