Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noblest rhetoric but fought on cynical and divisive terms produced a sense of lingering self-doubt that may never vanish. In a significant way, though, the principles for which the war was waged are ascendant today in Vietnam. The free-market spirit of Saigon is what counts, not the Marxist maunderings of some old men in Hanoi. The Vietnamese, who lost many more lives than Americans did along the streets, rivers and paddy fields of a singularly ugly encounter, have put the past behind them. Americans need do no less...
...weapons, more like ray guns than rifles. Their odd shapes, and the robotic look of the soldiers, suggest that Picasso had also been looking at American sci-fi comic strips. It isn't clear who the killers are, and the naked victims don't look at all Asian; every Marxist in France (which in 1951 meant most of the French intelligentsia) assumed that the painting was a denunciation of some unspecified American war crime...
...believe in some universal key orpanacea. I am not an advocate of what Karl Poppercalled "holistic social engineering," particularlybecause I had to live most of my adult life incircumstances that resulted from an attempt tocreate a holistic Marxist utopia. I know more thanenough, therefore, about efforts of this kind...
...administration looks at the undergraduates in the houses and sees too many "jocks" here, not enough "Blacks" there. Instead of questioning the pseudo-Marxist assumption that we are defined as individuals by our participation in a certain activity or our racial consciousness, the administration sees a problem with statistics, And, as it is often said, the numbers...
...large arms shipments arriving in the superintendent's office. He's tried to hide the slips, but I've seen them! He is growing a long beard and is starting to smoke unfiltered cigarettes. UNFILTERED!! Can you believe it? He is growing fonder and fonder of Marxist criticism-in fact, I think I overheard him making cracks about laissez-faire economic policies! What should I do?? --Worried in Winthrop...