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...Campus. From a Republican family in New York's affluent Westchester County, he racked up a succession of A's in college, won a Rhodes scholarship, wrote and starred in campus plays, headed the student government. Yet he is in total rebellion against what he calls "status quo-ism: the feeling that order and status quo are the most important things?in the ghetto, in Southeast Asia and everywhere." Reich feels that his age group has been under tremendous pressure to excel in scholarship ever since Sputnik. But "all of a sudden, somewhere in there...
Bart Lytton, 55, mercurial multimillionaire boss of Los Angeles' Lytton Financial Corp., has never been noted for modesty. "I am the most successful businessman in this decade in the U.S.," he once observed. "The only ism for me is narcissism. If I cared about my image, I'd never do the gutty things I do, or say the things I say. The day I turn mellow, I hope they melt...
...problems." To see that the Czechoslovak people get that chance, he left his family behind in Slovakia in January, moved alone into a downtown Prague hotel and began working 18-hour days on his reforms. Inevitably, since he wants to transform Czechoslovak society within the wide bounds of social ism, he is compared to the 15th century Czechoslovak Theologian Jan Hus, who tried to reform the Roman Catholic Church from within but saw his followers break away and form their own movement. Hus was burned at the stake. Dubček does not expect any such fate...
...commission's contention that racial disorders result from "white rac ism" was widely disputed. California Governor Ronald Reagan charged that the commission "failed to recognize the efforts that have been made by millions of right-thinking people in this country." Richard Nixon and others zeroed in on the commission's failure to place heavy blame on the rioters themselves. "I think," said Nixon, "the commission has put undue emphasis on the idea that we are in effect a racist society." Vice President Hubert Humphrey also had some doubts about the commission's conclusion that...
...enforced ignorance of the rest of the world have had their effect on Russia's citizens, but the Communists have succeeded neither in expunging nor in radically shifting their deep human character traits. The Communist regime has obviously convinced most Russians of the virtues of social ism and persuaded them to take a class-conscious view of history. By its achievement, it seems to have given them more self-esteem and pride in their country than the mass of Russians have ever had before. Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose manners were formed by centuries of serfdom. No longer...