Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forefront of developing academic racism, racist theories are attracting increasing attention at universities nationally, including Harvard...
...FUTURE OF IRAN. We now have a program in which the factories are offering 49% of their shares to the workers. So the workers and the small landholders are in the forefront of our revolutionary movement and are with the regime. De Gaulle tried to do the same in France. He could not. I can, because of the very special relationship that exists between the King and the people in this country. I hope that this leadership will continue until everybody is not only literate but has a good life. A lot is at stake in the preservation of this...
...sciences at the turn of the century, Wells turned more and more towards realistic social prophecy, and a new optimism in which free will and determinism would control Darwinism. In Anticipations he talks of a new "Human Ecology" which could help predict "biological, intellectual, and economic consequences." At the forefront of his "free will" is a new "mass of capable men," engendered by sterilization programs in which mankind can "tolerate no dark corners where the people of the abyss may fester." In A Modern Utopia, these supermen are called Samurai. And even though they rule over a socialist state...
...with American guns and tanks. Official communiques acknowledged thirteen deaths; rumors suggest that the toll was much higher. There were hundreds of casualties. Thousands were arrested, and the courts martial began to sentence in closed session. The November 25 coup, instantly recognized by the U.S. government, brought to the forefront of the junta the head of the brutal Military Security Police. The situation seems more threatening for the prisoners--and for all Greeks...
Retour and Salamandretreat the same theme--most broadly, the struggles of socialist humanists attempting to deal with a post-industrialist world. The setting (Geneva), and the sometimes simplistic philosophy of class conflict are the same. But Tanner has now brought his ideology, his words, into the forefront, replacing the action provided by Salamandre's fascinating heroine, Rosemonde...