Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of our correspondents, working on this report was the culmination of a deep, ongoing interest in socialism. Eastern Europe Bureau Chief David Aikman, for example, concentrated on modern Russian and Chinese history while a doctoral student at the University of Washington. As our Hong Kong correspondent, he covered the People's Republic of China. Traveling in Eastern Europe for this week's story, Aikman talked with a variety of individuals, from tractor drivers on collective farms to bank managers, and found that "few people had given a thought to socialism as a philosophical entity, and none were...
...University Historian Rosario Romeo puts it, "Everyone imagines socialism in his own way." To Senegal's President Léopold Senghor, socialism is "the rational organization of human society according to the most scientific, the most modern and the most efficient methods." To Britain's Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, it is "a society based on cooperation instead of competition." France's Mitterrand calls it "an élan, a collective movement ?the communion of men in search of justice." In a more colloquial vein, a current hit song in Jamaica, pulsating with reggae beat, teaches: "Socialism is love for your...
...stripe have several ideals in common. One is the belief that if the means of production remain under the complete control of private owners, the worker will be exploited. Another is a firm commitment to egalitarianism, which the conservative historian Robert Strausz-Hupé calls "the strongest single element of modern society...
Despite the general rule against modern conveniences-no electricity, plumbing, newspapers, cigarettes or soap -the 20th century kept intruding. British education authorities ruled that schoolbooks had to be available for the children, and laws demanded that a butcher come in to stun and slaughter the pigs. TV crews appeared on the scene about twice a week. Percival allowed the volunteers to use Tampax and contraceptives, sent in a doctor four times during emergencies, and took the group for a summer outing at the shore. Said he: "No one's life should suffer or be altered for a television show...
Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Modern Genetics at the Med School, said yesterday he filed the suit in response to claims of a soon-to-be published book that doctors secretly created a human baby through cloning...