Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White House Years will obviously be required reading for all serious students of modern foreign affairs. We are confident TIME'S readers will find it a compelling-and certainly controversial-account of a turbulent era in U.S. history...
First, the U.S. should be especially wary of embracing dictatorships that have sprung up in countries with democratic traditions, like Chile and Greece. The Pinochet junta is an aberration in modern Chilean history and may well go the way of the Greek Colonels. The same could be true of Ferdinand Marcos, although democracy in the Philippines has always been fragile and turbulent. Conversely, the U.S. has little choice but to tolerate military rule where it is the norm. For example, South Korea's Park Chung Hee suppresses dissent by an "emergency decree" superficially similar to Marcos' martial...
Maybe he's right. After all, the same thing happened some years ago to modern European students. To correct that situation, Donald Fleming, Trumball Professor of American History, agreed to alternate between American and European intellectual history--as a result, this year he's teaching European...
...modern world of cults and movements, Gloucester resembles its town monument: cast-iron fisherman poised on his pedestal, standing between the ocean and tourist shops, lost...
...mental health experts who conducted this study unanimously report that today's public needs soothing, simple music designed to ease the strains of modern life. Music like Talking Heads', with its complex layers of oddly syncopated rhythms, serves no useful social function. Furthermore, their album is produced and heavily influenced by Mr. Brain Eno, a notorious balding man who named his second album after a piece of Red Chinese propaganda...