Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...messianic vision, like the turbans in which he wraps himself, does not camouflage his vicious methods and his ruthless fanaticism. He believes his own erratic ends are justified by any means, however bloody. He has become the modern-day incarnation of the Society of Assassins, which flourished from the 11th to the 13th century in the Middle East, only his victims are random and spread over the entire map. The primary tool of his effort to achieve Islamic unity and the elimination of Israel is terrorism. Gaddafi regards himself not only as the last great hope of pan-Islam...
...driven nuts and she would come to loathe me." By contrast, marriage looks positively seductive. Were this antic reversal all, Colwin could be categorized as an antiromantic romantic, half in love with the dreams she punctures. But the author, despite her subject and style, is that rarest of modern artists, a moralist...
Domestically, the ruling House of Saud faces some rising discontent from a middle class that remains shut out of political power. In what remains a largely feudal society with a complex system of consensus building, the technocrats and businessmen who emerged during the boom years lack modern forums in which to vent their views sufficiently. Many young Saudis, particularly those educated in the West, are increasingly frustrated by their elders' refusal to allow them any governmental voice...
...place for 200 years, and people feel very comfortable with their government and their religion. What alternative has been offered?" Yet that may be too simple. While the Saudis clearly will not swallow all foreign ways whole, they are just as clearly a country in transition from feudal to modern times...
...spite of the fact that the dialogue is in Korean, even those at previous performances in New York, Philadelphia, and Providence who spoke as much Greek as Korean appeared to have no difficulty relating to the contradictions depicted: modern "progress" in Third World countries like South Korea under Western captialism's political and economic shadow. The overt questioning of the impact of continuing American influence in the form of U.S. military troops and the recent build-up of nuclear arms is not simply rhetoric being played out on stage, but a form of experimenting that asks...