Word: expansionism
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Evidently Lasch feels himself capable not only of a wild expansion of Freudian thought but also of taking on and combining the problems of faith and interpretation involved in both systems.
Spending. Reaganauts are agreed on their goal: to reduce the deficit from the current 5% of gross national product to what is regarded as a manageable 2% of G.N.P. in 1988. With tax increases ruled out by the White House and the economy now in a slowdown, precluding a rapid...
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Russell said last night in an interview that he wanted to "stop the expansion of MIT and Harvard into Cambridge's neighborhoods. We wanted to let Harvard know how we feel before plans are drawn and they get settled in too fast."
In essence, How Democracies Perish takes up where Temptation left off. Revel now charges Western democracy as a whole with failing to recognize the reality of Communist, particularly Soviet, expansion since 1917. According to Revel, Western "victories" in that struggle (the 1948 Berlin airlift, Korea) have never been more than...