Word: capitalisme
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Four years ago those entering Harvard could savor the lingering aftertaste of five years of revolution. (Well, attempted revolution.) Now, as distinguished professors freeze slowly into grotesque shapes in Widener studies, they need not worry about students storming their sancta. As students thaw out their textbooks before beginning an evening...
Syria's socialist regime even allows a touch of capitalism these days. Entrepreneurs who fled the country after the 1963 Baath coup, taking billions of Syrian pounds with them, are being wooed back. Syria is also permitting the importation of luxury consumer goods like Mercedes-Benz limousines (Damascus price...
The speaker was a thin, quietly dressed man looking older than his 55 years. His lecture consisted of 36 minutes of platitudes about the virtues of capitalism and the need for freer international trade and investments. At the end, the 43 University of Minnesota students who had turned out on...
Such projects, though for "contemporary" buildings-bourses, railroad buildings and other temples of the new technocratic capitalism-have a curiously unreal air. They are paper architecture inhabiting imaginary space. How, one wonders, could they prepare a student for design in the real world? Yet they did, for the "real world...
There are also a great many political asides, all having to do with the various and inclusive insanities of Marxism, capitalism and fascism. All are denounced, while liberation through mad ness is stoutly championed. Sweet Movie, full of unenlightened lunacy, is not really a film at all. It is a...