Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revealing documentary Is It Easy to Be Young? portrays a generation given to graffiti and hooliganism. "I don't think about what will happen to me," says one young man, spiked hair framing a pocked face. "I don't particularly want to know ... Hey, you just gotta enjoy yourself!" Goodbye, dialectical materialism. Hello, California pleasure principle...
Against all odds, belief has been preserved through ancient rites and modern- day courage. Russian Orthodoxy and, even more, Judaism still suffer serious limitations. Nonetheless, as glasnost penetrates everyday life, believers are starting to enjoy wider freedoms than at any other time since the atheistic persecutions were launched during the 1920s...
Soon enough, though, signs of change emerge. Traffic is much heavier, and if Pepsi has not exactly replaced vodka as the national beverage, it is widely available. Cooperative restaurants enjoy a fairly brisk business, at least among those who can afford the prices (lunches and dinners often go for $20 to $30 a person, without drinks or wine). Major hotels offer Western joint- venture seekers many distinctly unsocialist hard-currency attractions -- slot machines, for one -- while out on the sidewalks, better-dressed young people hurry by, oblivious to the stiff-knuckled old women sweeping the streets with birch-branch brooms...
...example, Fallows said "there is more emphasis on effort for its own sake in Japan, and more emphasis on teamwork" than in the United States and suggested that Americans improve conditions so that more people enjoy their work. But the cultural differences can never be completely eliminated, he said...
Some students enjoy having him on their side.Allison R. Armour '89 said that she thoughtWarren's class experience probably gave him agreater understanding of his students. She told ofone class presentation when students had todescribe their typical...