Word: egalitarianism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most freshmen will have realized by now, Harvard isn’t quite the liberal, egalitarian paradise that its conservative detractors make it out to be. Among the social activists, progressives, and left-leaning intellectuals that populate this campus, there lurk shadowy organizations that conservatively cling to tradition and anachronism, even in the face of great societal progress. The vast majority of the freshman class encounters these nocturnal beasts even before they arrive at Harvard, during pre-frosh weekend. And those who escape them then are nevertheless ensnared by the end of their first week on campus. With names that...
...clear to see in Gore's business ventures some of the same instincts that, for better or worse, shaped his political career: an ability to discern the future, an appetite for complexity, a faith in the egalitarian forces of technology--and an impulse to take a big risk. Those traits are what had Gore worried about global warming decades ahead of almost everyone else and running for President before his 40th birthday. Under Bill Clinton, he pushed to reinvent the massive federal bureaucracy and wire every classroom to the Internet. In his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign, Gore once even considered...
...following the adoption of a new law that allows a return to the Viking tradition of patronymics. Instead of maintaining a single last name across generations, each generation of children, in this system, is given a last name that consists simply of the father?s (or in these gender-egalitarian times, the mother?s) first name with the suffix ?son? or ?datter? (daughter) added...
...nation of robotic consumers, like the U.S. has become, is no more enlightened, free or egalitarian than China...
...growing and social venues disappearing over the past half century, Harvard gradually fell into the problem we have today: a tiny minority of male students still enjoy the comfort of their own space and the rest of us are left wondering why a school that prides itself for its egalitarian principles could have a social scene that seems so unfair...