Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student vote, if it materializes on election day, could significantly help liberal candidates. One student group, the Democratic Socialist Organizaing Committeee, has already endorsed council challenger David Sullivan, a rent control advocate. Other CCA candidates plan some last minute campaigning on campus...
...time to fill. Scouts from the benign galactic empire Canopus discover a small but promising planet, obviously the young earth, whose denizens include a strain of monkeys beginning to stand on their own two feet. The Canopeans introduce a race of superior creatures to tutor these humanoids and help speed their evolution. Eventually, the planet, called Rohanda, is deemed ready to be locked into the vast, overarching harmony that prevails throughout the domain of Canopus...
...forget the here and now. She will still pause for moments of liquid beauty, stop to portray a sliver of the moon reflected in a dusty courtyard pool in Morocco. Shikasta invites argument. There is something unsatisfying about a vision of history that suggests humans could not, after all, help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos. But belief in Lessing's theory is not required to find her novel pleasurably, even furiously engaging on every page...
...Prime Minister, but he abandoned national politics in 1954 to devote the next 20 years to sarvodaya, a movement that called for a new social order free of economic exploitation. Narayan returned to the political forefront in 1974, to lead the opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and help form the Janata Front, which eventually defeated her in the 1977 elections...
Arens says Columbus passed on tales of cannibalism to his Spanish masters to help establish a slave trade. In one report he wrote of the Caribs: "The welfare of said cannibals. . . has raised the thought the more that may be sent over [to Spain] the better." Afterward, on one Caribbean island after another, natives were identified as cannibals, then enslaved. Says Arens: "Thus the operational definition of cannibalism in the 16th century was resistance to foreign invasion followed by being sold into slavery...