Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mission failed almost immediately. Walking into the Adams Lower Common Room, I was immediately struck by the charged atmosphere. As students mingled, making introductions and sampling fondue, the scene reminded me of a diplomatic reception between two warring countries. Manners were reserved, speech carefully considered and few members of either group seemed inclined to fly solo while working the room. Soon the organizers called us to attention and we were instructed to break into small groups to begin discussing assimilation and conformity in our minority communities...
Disbelief was followed by an epiphany-like moment of common understanding. The eyes of the black students lit up as they explained that they felt the same uneasiness about their future in this country. As we bonded over our shared sense of exile, one black student did point out a crucial difference: if blacks are ever kicked out, or even just socially marginalized into oblivion, they have no homeland to which to turn...
Lunch and dinner have become painful ordeals for all involved, as crowds of students schlep their trays from the already Lilliputian serving area out of the dining hall and up to the doors of the always locked Junior Common Room. Students seeking refuge in the JCR have repeatedly been ejected so that the opera cast can rehearse, leaving them nowhere to go but into exile. We've even spotted them grumbling over breakfast at Adams and Quincy. There may be only one answer: artistic sabotage...
...again were relied upon by decent-minded Russians to make sure communism never returned. The victorious Russians, fresh from overthrowing their Soviet overlords in 1991, realized that the best way to make sure the communists never returned was to quickly privatize all government-owned businesses and housing. This way, common citizens would have private property and an incentive to defend it. How do you privatize a Stalinist economy quickly? Well, the Czechs had been doing it for two years with the "voucher" system, devised by Jan Svejnar, a Czech-American economist. Now, Russia has a lower percentage...
...Armed, dangerous, easy to hate. But so hard to catch. Why? In the westerns, the hero rode alone. The villains always had a gang. Think Gary Cooper. High Noon (1952). The hero always won. In international politics, though, that elegance disappears. Too many cooks? Try too many allies. The common enemy suddenly gets complicated. The Third Man (1949) knows this. A film noir with real profundity, the movie is home to one of moviedom's great villains: Harry Lime. Yet Orson Welles' performance is very nearly secondary; Harry Lime is a creation of his American friend (Joseph Cotten), his lover...