Word: imperialist
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...late 1800s to find a man and repair a concert grand piano. Perhaps Heart of Darkness is an inescapable influence. But as Mason settles into his tale, the Victorian stuffiness melts. Drake, a confused man too modern for his time, takes the Burma assignment to escape the strictures of imperialist London. He makes a surreal journey to a village on the Salween River, where he meets Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll?this story's Kurtz. After several months in Carroll's polymathic world of specimen collections and local power struggles, Drake is forced to flee. The Piano Tuner ends gracefully...
...noble, their refusal to contemplate any military action blinds them to the danger that Saddam Hussein poses to peace in the Middle East. The bold assumptions of several speakers at the really—that President Bush is only interested in oil and that unilateral U.S. action constitutes imperialist aggression—are particularly disturbing in light of their purported efforts to promote serious discussion of the issue. HIPJ marginalizes the threat Hussein poses in favor of unsubstantiated attacks on Bush and his foreign policy. Lecturer on History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, for example, insisted...
...could argue with that? Yet there is a problem with Bush's vision: it will have to be imposed from the outside. To be sure, in the past, American imperialist practice has usually been more benign than Britain's. (The R.A.F. bombed Iraqi villages that were late in paying their taxes, which even the Colonial Office in London thought was a bit much.) And America's ostensible motives today are pure (so long as we don't mention oil). "Liberty for the Iraqi people," said Bush, "is a great moral cause." It doubtless is. But just as beauty...
...file. Workers picketed GM's Seoul sales office on and off for more than a year and rioted outside Daewoo's Bupyeong plant near Seoul. The unionists even dispatched a mission to GM's U.S. headquarters to persuade executives to back off. The anger persists. GM is "a multinational, imperialist company," declares Kim Il Seob, the workers' union president. The takeover "equals layoffs and unstable employment...
...Korean border" my guide meant the halfway point across the Yalu, and not the border post, by now quite discernible not more than a hundred meters off. I was disappointed but also relieved at the thought that there was no chance of my being seized as a running dog, imperialist American spy. Ten dollars poorer but richer nonetheless, I headed back to Ji'an, crossing the Yalu by a bridge that I now know does so much more than just span a river. It links, and separates, two different worlds...