Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market, policymakers are worried about a glut of recent graduates with advanced degrees in the humanities and social sciences. Roughly 25% of humanities majors are jobless after graduation, and many of them eventually have to find work in other fields. These subjects, moreover, are frequently taught from a Marxist perspective in France. During a recent speech, Saunier-Seïté bluntly warned students to beware of the "Marxist domination" and "ideological imperialism" rampant in faculty lounges and student cafeterias. But that just made many academics all the more wary of Saunier-Seïté and her efforts...
...more subtle tension has been apparent all week. Anti-registration groups have muttered discontentedly about the various Marxist groups that tag along with the crowd and condemn all of American society along with registration. "We don't seek their support, but many fringe groups are attracted to us," Frank Broadhead, director of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, said earlier in the week...
...only fighting broke out when two young, male pedestrians argued with and then assaulted several of the picketers in two unrelated incidents. Cambridge police removed one man for his own safety, after he twice attacked a member of the Marxist-Leninist Party who was carrying a sign mocking President-elect Ronald Reagan. Police said the man would not be arrested...
Marxistka, a terms that literally means a woman who embraces Marxist political beliefs, has come to mean, in the Moscow vernacular, a prostitute who walks Marx Avenue in Moscow. Another phrase which originally meant 'to change views to keep in line with the party line,' has taken on a new connotation. It now refers to a conformist who adheres to the party line, fluctuating even as the party line shifts...
Walesa proved equally adept at hard-nosed political bargaining. After eight days of tense face-to-face negotiations with Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, he won a historic agreement that made Poland the only Communist country to have independent trade unions. It was a daring deviation from Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy that potentially challenged the Communist Party's monopoly of power and set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the East bloc...