Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university presidents see things differently. They recognize that the nature of society and the independence of their students would not permit them to bring back the days of chapel services of strict dress codes even if they wanted to. No fair-minded college president wants to be a moral imperialist imposing his values on those less in lightened than he, Instead, mirroring the philosophy behind his undergraduate Core Curriculum, Bok wants to teach students how to think about ethical questions and problems rather than what to think...
...white ties, striding down the middle of the street with beautiful women on their arms. They might have been reclaiming the French Quarter. Later that week we heard the Captain being interviewed on a French language radio station. He sounded sutably Gallic and urbane but slightly bored, the retired imperialist paying his colonial social dues. Indeed, New Orleans is one of the few ports in the world where the French Navy can still feel like conquering heroes. The Captain was in his glory on Bourbon Street...
...movement. There's the "Woman who writes plays," portrayed by playwright Sargent, who says she's writing the play even as it unfolds before us. She is joined by six other women representing a range of experiences: the single mother, the women's studies teacher, the anarchist, the anti-imperialist, the nun and the activist...
...Versailles to support Japanese claims to Shandong sparked a demonstration of some 5,000 students in Peking on May 4, 1919, and protests at more than a dozen universities across the country. Mao Tse-tung later labeled the "May 4 movement," as it came to be called, "an anti-imperialist and antifeudal bourgeois-democratic revolution in China." The protests ushered in a decade of radical opposition to foreign encroachment...
...civilization. This junk boldly symbolizes the burden of his sins, and watching Mendoza struggle with it, we do not know whether to weep or laugh. But we savor this psychological ambiguity in a movie that is generally much more intent on mining a vague political message from a backwoods imperialist tragedy...