Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although there is no display for the 1980s, the events of the past year seem to indicate that the University, that giant octopus of academia, has not changed its mind about growth...
...University continues to grow and prepares for the 1990s, it may have to relearn the lessons of the past decade of expansion--the need for tolerance and community awareness and for balancing expansion and academics. Although the next display installed at Widener could well be a world map, Harvard need not be at its center...
Gorbachev has not always been a champion of the kind of people power on display in Tiananmen Square. Early in his tenure as General Secretary, his understanding of democracy was closer to Deng's concept of limited managerial and entrepreneurial liberalization. However, the Soviet leader grew to realize that as long as the Communist Party maintains its grip on all aspects of society, significant reform is nearly impossible. The party is too conservative, too resistant to change. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the party was the agent of cataclysmic change -- but on behalf of a conspiratorial elite...
...junior high school where, he recalls, "the favorite recess activity was to take me to the edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would gather to watch this display. I don't know why they did it. Maybe because I wouldn't fight the way they wanted me to fight. They wanted a fight they could win. And my way of winning was just to hang in there." He refused to be a sissy, so he would be Sisyphus...
Responsibility for the bombing remained uncertain. The Syrians, who control West Beirut, blamed Lebanon's Christians; the Christians accused the Syrians. But fittingly, the death of the peace-loving cleric inspired a rare display of unity: Christians and Muslims joined in a one-day nationwide strike to mourn his loss...