Word: collectivist
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...never mind into cities and countries - need to be smart. How else to negotiate the complex rules and hierarchies of their cultures? It's not for nothing that sharks, among the dimmest of the large carnivores, are loners, or that humans - far and away the smartest - are so enthusiastically collectivist...
...ideas that Fidel doesn't always find communist kosher. In a brief article published this week in the government mouthpiece Granma, Fidel takes issue with the idea, posited recently by a Cuban columnist in another official newspaper, that Raul's changes are progress compared to the more restrictive and collectivist ways of the past. In the not-so-subtle style Fidel is known for, the article's headline reads: "Don't make concessions to enemy ideology...
...state government has steadily expanded its power. "There's less and less for town meetings to decide; we might get to choose a road commissioner," says McLaughry, who has moderated the town of Kirby's annual meetings for the last 42 years. "There's a very strong collectivist element in Vermont...
...course, once a collectivist not always a collectivist. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at New York University, has been following 400 families that immigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Many hailed from villages where the American culture of competition is alien, but once they got here, they changed fast...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Ayn Rand. Her first—and best—novel, “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, tells the story of an independent-minded architect, Howard Roark, who rebels against the collectivist ethos of New Deal America. The sex scenes between Roark and his on-again-off-again lover, journalist Dominique Francon, are so violent that Roark could probably be charged with rape today. And, post-9/11, readers may be less tolerant towards Roark, who has a disturbing propensity to blow up architecturally...