Word: egalitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...books attempt to erase any lingering misconceptions about the once Celestial Empire. Uniformity of dress, says Butterfield, the first New York Times correspondent in China since 1949, does not prove that a society is egalitarian. To acquire virtually anything important in China one needs guanxi, or personal connections. But no guanxi are powerful enough to keep the Chinese citizens safe from surveillance. People are watched not only by intelligence agencies but by every organization that affects their lives. In China, one is guilty until proved innocent, and once accused, the only way to be absolved is to confess. As Butterfield...
...something together as a couple. Mastering is very much a team effort." James A. Davis, Master of Winthrop House, says. Although the role of the spouse varies from House to House. Davis feels that the two roles, the Master's and the spouse's, have become "much more egalitarian," although the formal power structure makes little allowance for this factor...
...overwhelmingly popular monarch in an egalitarian age, Queen Elizabeth II, 55, passed a milestone last week-her 30th anniversary as Queen of the United Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth...
...over the country the high cost of higher education and the current reduction in state and federal aid are forcing public university systems to rethink an egalitarian admissions philosophy. For more than a decade, open admissions attracted many talented people who might never have had the chance for a college education. But it also saddled many schools with students woefully unprepared to do college work. The cost of remedial education has skyrocketed. Says Leon Mayhew, vice chancellor for the University of California at Davis: "There are costs in the generic sense of money spent. The other cost...
Marx and Engels tried to apply their egalitarian ideal to secular goals and to much larger communities-entire countries and ultimately the whole world. Two German expatriates living in England, they were outraged by the abuses of the Industrial Revolution, which established new heights of wealth and new depths of poverty. The manufacturers and investors claimed wealth as their right, since they built the factories and paid the workers' salaries. Marx and Engels argued that the workers were being deprived of the very thing that gave them worth in society-the fruits of their labor. For capitalists to profit...