Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some feel that the issue of children's rights will become the civil rights movement of the '80s. It's doubtful, since until they are allowed to vote (admittedly a problematic notion), they will never have a full and equal participation on the political process. This simple fact, however, has not prevented will-meaners and not-so-well-meaners from trying to frame a progressive child social welfare policy...
...Gooks" look alike--they don't, you know. It's powerful as hell, but there are too many improbabilities, and it's very disturbing morally. I think it will do for the United States in Vietnam what Gone With The Wind did for the Confederacy in the Civil War. In some ways, The Deer Hunter may be the Gone With The Wind of our time...
...make Turkey potentially explosive. At the least, continued economic deterioration could sorely impair Turkey's effectiveness as a NATO ally. At worst, if inflation and unemployment are not checked, the radical extremes could erode the political middle, polarize the population, and set the stage for the familiar nightmare: civil war under banners of fanatical right and left...
...toward the left. Last December at Maras in central Turkey, the Sunnis went on a rampage. In retaliation for a street clash, they killed more than 100 Shi'ites and burned hundreds of others out of their homes. The massacre forced Ecevit, an accomplished poet and a prideful civil libertarian, to declare martial law in 13 of Turkey's 67 provinces...
...that debate did little to resolve the issues at hand, which was not surprising, since the conflict between free speech and perceived pornography is one of the great civil libertarian conundrums of our time. Those in the skin trade take full advantage of the public confusion, Chan among them. Even as the Crimson debated, Chan placed an ad in the Boston Globe and was himself profiled in the paper's Living section. "I got censored. I felt very sad about that," he told the Globe ingenuously. "I never thought it would happen here at Harvard, where presumably people think...