Word: imperialist
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...dozen people played bongo drums. If Farber had been thinking about Harvard's image, there might have been some reason for it. But the Gazette memo talked only of much loftier issues: the real forces at war in Angola, the attitudes proper to large businesses with imperialist interests, and the problems in institutional ethics forced on large universities with imperialist investments. The memo was higher-minded than Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and almost as boring. Bok came out with a statement shortly thereafter, to the effect that much as the University would like to sell its stock in Gulf, its conscience...
...awards him the Nobel Peace Prize. Bernstein also awards himself the first Nobel Prize for Music. "It's about time," Bernstein remarks. Bok squelches merger rumors by selling Radcliffe to Libya. Libyan premier Col. Muammar Qadaffi closes the school down. "As the leader of progressive Third World anti-imperialist forces everywhere," Qadaffi announces, "I do not believe in education for women. Back to the bedroom." F. Skiddy von Stade comments...
...friendly to the Cuban people," said the first worker, "our attitude to the government depends on what it does." "Our factory doesn't have any direct relations with Cuba," said a second. Two others gave slightly more detailed accounts, about how Castro was originally nationalist and anti-imperialist but today Cuba has great problems, being exploited by the Soviet Union. Cuba is admittedly a long way from China, but the first two answers still seemed a little disturbing...
...what I observe, and no, I don't know if there is any way to fix it. I guess the hope was that the audience would say "Oh, yes, I see. I'll change." But the illusion of the '60s was tell them they are racist and fighting an imperialist war and they'll stop. That proved to be very wrong...
...food distribution or start a population control program, no help would be sent. This may be a brutal policy, but it is perhaps the only kind that can have any long-range impact. A triage approach could also demand political concessions. The U.S. may be roundly denounced for "imperialist arrogance," but Washington may feel no obligation to help countries that consistently and strongly opposed it. As Earl Butz told TIME: "Food is a weapon. It is now one of the principal tools in our negotiating...