Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those willing to leave Cambridge to watch their sports, Boston offers some of the finest professional teams in the nation. Boston fans are renowned for their intense loyalty and emotional fervor, as any visiting Yankee, Dolphin, Knick or Canadien fan will attest. If they manage to get out alive...
...Commencement address delivered at Harvard on June 8th, Ms. Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, set a high moral tone by pleading the case for freedom, liberty and human rights worldwide. These are universal values which every nation must uphold, argued Ms. Bhutto, and she paid glowing tribute to the peoples of Argentina, Brazil, Panama, the Phillipines and her native Pakistan who stood up in defense of these values...
...Pakistan General Elections held in 1970. He persuaded the then General of Pakistan not to transfer power to the Awami League Party of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which had clearly won the elections. This led to a genocide in which three million innocent East Pakistanis were massacred and the nation of Bangladesh was born. (In fact, some of Ms. Bhutto's close friends, for example, the Galbraiths, recall that she was, during her Radcliffe days, a vigorous proponent of the policies of the military government of Pakistan.) Secondly, while in power as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Bhutto himself engaged...
...American Literature and Language Helen Vendler, who teaches the introductory English course, has edited several poetry anthologies and writes about modern American poetry for The New Yorker. And Robert Brustein, who teaches some undergraduate drama courses, is the founder and director of the American Repertory Theater, one of the nation's most successful regional theatres. Brustein, who came to Harvard from the Yale Repertory Theater, is also a noted drama critic and writes a bi-weekly theater column for The New Republic...
...decade of the most overwhelming social change our nation has ever seen. The battles over civil rights and the issues surrounding the Vietnam War were magnified in people's lives by the advent of televised news coverage. And the obvious inequalities which were being fought against lent credibility to the protests...