Word: karle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other reports provided reassurance that many well-publicized side effects of prescription drugs are, in fact, mild. University of Pennsylvania Psychiatrist Karl Rickels told of a one-year study showing that Valium addiction is rare and comparatively easy to overcome. T. Alan Ramsey, also of Penn, challenged the view that lithium can damage kidneys, charging that such reports were based on uncontrolled studies that failed to allow for infection or other causes of disability...
Thompson's memories of his radical lawyer, Karl Laszlo, provides the film with what little plot it has. Thompson traces Laszlo's progress from crusading counselor to wild-eyed revolutionary. Through Laszlo, Linson and Kaye make their feeble attempt at social commentary. He rages and sputters at the judge who sentences his teenage defendant Billy (Jon Matthews '83) to five years in prison for possession of a pound of marijuana. This first courtroom scene sets the tone of Laszlo's character for the rest of the film. He's passionate and irrational, but that...
...toward the Kremlin. Speaking for the U.S.: William Hyland, 51, now retired from a career that took him to the top levels of the State Department and the CIA. Hyland spent eight years as an aide to Henry Kissinger in the White House and State Department. Speaking for Europe: Karl Kaiser, 44, the director of the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn and professor of politics at the University of Cologne...
Capitalism's critics likewise have railed against the inequities, uncertainties and the social flux it creates. As Karl Marx saw it, "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned." Foes charge that the capitalist system perpetuates grave inequalities of wealth and extravagantly rewards success. Communists proclaim that capitalism demands periodic depressions as the way to keep workers poor and subservient. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm wrote that 19th century capitalism's drive for profit made people overly competitive, warped and aggressive. Finally, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith argues that free enterprise values wasteful private consumption more than needed...
These developments, however, also involved wrenching social changes, as people whose families had lived on the land for centuries moved to often crowded, filthy urban industrial centers. Yet this early capitalism represented for millions an escape from a still more oppressive rural poverty. Even Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that capitalism "during its rule of scarcely 100 years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together...