Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) once again voted to defer decision on its demands on the Harvard Corporation last night. The vote followed a tie procedural vote on whether the SASC should demand some form of either targeted or total divestiture of Harvard's investments in corporations active in South Africa...
...committee's stalemate and subsequent decision to postpone their vote for two weeks resulted from an inconclusive straw vote on whether they should support targeted divestiture or some form of total divestiture...
...first and most significant contributions to the history of modern art. The movement which reached its high-point in the late 1940's and early 1950's, stressed the role of the unconscious in artistic expression. The artist, in a sense, painted his emotions articulating them in line, color, form and brushstrokes...
This equation is repeated in one form or another throughout Eastern Europe. The Hungarian regime of Janos Kadar displays a limited amount of internal liberalisation, again in some accomodation to the Catholic Church, but externally remains the Soviet Union's devoted ally. Bulgaria has perhaps the weakest dissident movement and the genuine racial affinity her people feel with Russia is underlined by the historical fact of being saved by them from the fate of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire...
...such as the Crimean Tartars (deported by Stalin to Siberia and who wish to return to their homeland), or the Jews and Volga Germans (who wish to emigrate to Israel or Germany), do not pose an automatic ideological challenge--though when linked to the protest of intellectuals they can form a serious challenge. Perhaps most potentially disturbing is the emergence of a genuine workers' movement agitating for independent trade union activity with a potential mass appeal. This explains why the authorities have clamped down so heavily on Vladimir Klebanov and his numerically small group of worker dissidents...