Word: communisme
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...remarkable thing now about the American involvement in Vietnam is that it was not remarkable then. It reflected a mainstream consensus that if South Vietnam fell to communism, then other dominoes like Thailand, Malaysia, even Indonesia could be next. Dulles' successors believed that they were following the lessons of World War II when they committed American troops to fight in Vietnam. If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. Now, by challenging Chinese and Soviet aggression in Vietnam, they hoped to head off World...
...dominance of the "white male" in the academic curriculum. Yet in Rand they have a woman who has influenced and continues to influence the lives of millions, who many consider the most powerful advocate of values our century has seen and who ran away from the clutches of Communism at a young age and devoted her life to fighting for values she believed in. This woman--a paradigm of strength, independence and integrity--is ignored...
...pleased to welcome Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel to Harvard. As a distinguished dissident and prominent player in the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the man who will speak at the University's 344th Commencement this June is highly deserving of the podium...
Even so, by 1942 a coalition of conservative Republicans and Democrats was attempting to dismantle the mechanisms of the New Deal, such as the National Resources Planning Board. The House Un-American Activities Committee began a campaign to link liberalism with communism, suggesting that liberals were not simply lukewarm about capitalism but were actively plotting to upend it. Brinkley, a professor of American history at Columbia University, suggests that the compromises made by New Dealers in the early '40s--backing down on their antimonopolism and support of industrial "planning"--explain in part why "modern American liberalism has proved...
Deborah E. Kopald '95, who is a Crimson editor, said she found the writing process exhilarating. Her thesis, titled "The Eternal KGB: From Perestroika to Post-Communism," required "unconventional routes of ferreting out information...