Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much closer to post-Marxian France than to Rome during the Pax Romana. The young, callow Caligula recognizes the hypocrisy of the dominant values and mores. Devoted to exposing the irrationality of society, he sets out to accomplish the impossible--"to capture the moon"--by personally transforming the very fabric of civilization...
...have just finished reading a handbill containing the Republican Club's jejeune objections to the proposed Harvard Student Association. I am frankly appalled that that less than august body has adopted such a babyish posture regarding such a positive step towards the creation of a viable fabric of undergraduate community...
...union wants to organize agricultural workers in the South, an area with a very anti-union sentiment. While the UFW has been organizing in the fields of California and Arizona, textile workers in the Carolinas and Georgia have been attempting to organize in the fabric mills and apparel factories...
...Khrushchev report confirmed truths about Stalinism that Gornick believes many Communists and sympathizers already suspected but could not face. For her, the 20th Congress Report "snapped the last thread in a fabric of belief that was already worn to near disintegration." As a feminist 15 years later, she watched closely as consciousness succumbed to rigid rhetoric. But for Gornick, the knowledge that "dogma was the kiss of death for all thought" was cathartic. At long last, she forgave the Communists for their mistakes and began again to love them for their passion...
...requirement to be honest with patients has been left out altogether from medical oaths and codes of ethics, and is often ignored, if not actually disparaged, in the teaching of medicine." Bok sees problems in journalism too. Reporters Bernstein and Woodward, she says, seemed untroubled by "the whole fabric of deception" they used to uncover the Watergate scandal. Those lies, she maintains, were not clearly necessary and may encourage other reporters to use such tactics routinely...