Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But he restricts this function too narrowly. In propagating learning, the university also asserts allegiance to a set of universal ideas which aim to benefit all mankind. If this allegiance conflicts with the specific goals of a particular society, political tension naturally results between the university and society. To take...
Pecked at by unfavorable opinion polls, the opposition Tories and even the once faithful unions, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson has had nothing to crow about for a long time. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins gave him something. Reporting on the balance of payments for...
Though the hostility between government and unions began to grow almost from the moment Wilson took office, there was no head-on clash until this spring, when Wilson vowed to end a damaging rash of wildcat strikes by imposing stiff fines on offending workers and unions. In June, Wilson was...
Left-Wing Advantage. There was nothing illegal about it. San Marino allowed its émigrés to come back to vote long before the right was codified in its constitution in 1600. Nowadays that provision favors left-wing parties, which are able to bus in working-class San Marinese...
Gaping Wounds. "When men of privilege abuse their power and refuse justice," Ford told them, "sooner or later violent upheaval is bound to come. If we do not seek to heal the gaping, rubbed-raw wounds of racial strife, then we shall deserve 'the fire next time.' It...