Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"The wounds of war take time to heal," said an Angolan government spokesman in Luanda last week. "A bit of bad blood is bound to persist." That is quite an understatement. Nearly four months after it won the ferocious civil war for control of Angola, with the vital help of...
The only real difficulty this and other Harvard projects encounter stems from the nature of the foreign regimes. Many members of the Harvard community have argued that if Harvard is to remain faithful to the principle of open inquiry then it cannot ignore the fact that its undertakings may be...
The tune was the Depression lament Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, but the lyrics-sung by a character playing Mayor Abraham Beame in this year's Inner Circle satire by political reporters -are all too relevant today. Beame still cannot sell New York City bonds, and the state...
Predictably, Lebanon's leftists were enraged. Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt called a one-day general strike in Beirut that kept people off the streets and closed the few shops that had not already been shuttered by the incessant street fighting. He also requested that other Arab states "interfere" in...
When the Class of 1971 were freshmen in the fall of 1967, they still had to wear coats and ties to all meals and sign all female visitors in and out of their dormitories. By the time they graduated, the coat and tie and parietal regulations had been abolished, University...