Word: hards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Havel and his fellow intellectuals led Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution in part because no one else was prepared to. Purges following the 1968 invasion wiped out all potential reformers within the party, and a continued hard line kept any progressive new party figures from emerging. The government also used Czechoslovakia's relative prosperity to buy off the workers, who proved reluctant, if not downright timid, about demanding change. Last week the workers listened to men like Havel and agreed to join in. Said a truck driver: "They showed us not to be afraid." That coalition of intellectuals, students and workers...
...find the rich much poorer. Sometimes they are more lonely inside. They are never satisfied. They always need something more. I don't say all of them are like that. Everybody is not the same. I find that poverty hard to remove. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread...
...region's engineering and craft skills; it's the managerial savvy that is lacking. Joint ventures sound attractive, but their history provides many caveats. Licensing agreements may be the best bet, if they don't require the import of components that have to be paid for in scarce hard currency. In any case, those aspiring to become the Armand Hammers of this generation may recall that after five years, in 1930, Hammer sold his pencil factory in Moscow...
Sometimes even the women who participated in the feminist revolution, who shaped their lives according to its ideals, shake their heads and wonder. Call them the "Yes, but . . . " generation. Yes, these women in their 30s and 40s are feminists, but things have not worked out as expected. It is hard for them not to feel resentful: toward society for not coming to the aid of women in their new roles, toward the movement for not anticipating the difficulties. "We were promised that we could do it all and we would be as successful as men," says Carolyn Lo Galbo Goodfriend...
Many health professionals refuse to dispense such pseudo expertise, saying if it is wrong to discuss patients about whom they know something, it cannot be right to diagnose people they have never met. Yet even hard-liners were startled last week when the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists opened an investigation of four practitioners -- a procedure that could end in revoking their right to practice -- because of interviews they gave the Boston Globe about the emotional problems of Kitty Dukakis, wife of Governor Michael Dukakis. An acknowledged recovering alcoholic and amphetamine addict, she was hospitalized Nov. 5 after drinking...