Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee seems to have discriminated against Genovese on the basis of his personal reputation and his Marxist perspective. Committee members said they decided against considering Genovese because he is a "controversial character"--they had heard he can be a "difficult colleague." Richard B. Freeman, professor of Economics and a committee member, said the committee wants to build a "stable base in the department," and it feared Genovese's presence might hinder it from recruiting more senior faculty. Freeman admits it never made an effort to check Genovese's reputation...
Steadfastly refusing to treat with Mandela, whom he calls an "arch-Marxist," South Africa's Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha nonetheless began advising his countrymen to "adapt or die" even before Mugabe's landslide victory. He endorsed certain racial reforms in the labor field and began pushing for a constitutional revision that would give nonwhites some limited political voice. But such gestures fall far short of black demands, and Botha is reluctant to press for more substantial changes in the face of strong opposition from his National Party's right wing...
...Mozambique late last month. There, in the capital of Maputo, he indicated that Britain would help President Samora Machel rebuild the war-shattered rail line from the Rhodesian border to the Mozambican port of Beira. Someone asked Machel: How did aid from capitalist Britain square with his Marxist principles? "Our Marxist principles stand," he replied, hoisting a glass of French champagne. "Don't you like drinking champagne in a Marxist country...
...talented employees and much business would be lost between announcement and shutdown. Alexander Trowbridge, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, calls the bill "a mixed bag of well-intentioned motives, faulty law and a flawed understanding of how our economic system actually works." Tibor R. Machan, professor of Marxist economics and business ethics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, charged: "This proposed piece of legislation is the abandonment of due process when it comes to dealing with members of the business community. More and more, people in business are regarded as guilty of something or other without...
Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and a committee member, said Monday he does not plan to work with the committee next year because he believes the committee discriminated against Genovese on the basis of his "controversial" personal reputation and his Marxist perspective...