Word: embarassments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason that students took to the streets in 1978 to urge divestiture--and the reason some are angry now--was that they hoped a public decision by Harvard to sell off its holding would embarass both the South African government and the companies and banks that do business with it. That end is defeated when the sale is made privately. It's like humming church music during a rock concert--good for the soul, perhaps, but nobody notices...
...wanted messages smuggled to friends in the West. Many were deprived of jobs and privileges the state offered like education and health care. And for these public figures, the personal quickly coalesced with the legal. Trials became opportunities to expose the regime and law became a means to embarass the government. To some it all seemed like a charade to oppose specific violations of law but not to oppose the general absence of rights in a police state, where the law could be ignored with impunity by any government officer didn't make sense. Rubenstein makes clear there...
...last fifty years to write a serious novel, a novel of ideas, the attacks come strong and steady. Some are self-serving, such as Gore Vidal's assertion that to rejuvenate fiction a writer must be witty and satiric. Others are malevolent such as Alfred Kazin's attempts to embarass the writer of the '80s with accusations of simplicity and incompetence. But these attacks are misguided. Fiction lives a healthy and vigorous life. Pummeled by the film industry, mass marketing and now McCarthy's vision of violation and out-dated expectation, the novel prospers...
...responsible for the endorsement of the principles by ten South African companies that employ 50,000 blacks. Pointing to 30 American companies that are intransigent and slow in desegregating their plants in South Africa, Sullivan says he will give them one more year before he launches a campaign to "embarass and chastize" those companies and to praise those that have made the first steps toward desegregation...