Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while authoritarianism is firmly installed in every socialist country, with the exception of the social democracies. This has prompted deep self-searching by many socialists. Says Asoka Mehta, India's leading socialist thinker: "Socialism is an attractive goal, but concentration of power is as dangerous as concentration of capital." Oxford Research Fellow Leszek Kolakowski, a dedicated socialist who left Poland in 1968, says, "One cannot discuss the socialist idea today as if nothing has happened since the idea was born. [In Eastern Europe] we expropriated the owners, and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems...
...Haden, Los Angeles Rams quarterback, on his Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford: "The Rhodes has made football seem less important to me; it brings it down to earth...
Michael R. Rhum, a resident of Conant Hall, a graduate student dormitory on Oxford Street, said yesterday it would have been impractical to have two Conant Halls, because the present Conant Hall already receives misdirected mail from Conant laboratories...
...home or office, routine chores will be performed with astonishing efficiency and speed. Leisure time, greatly increased, will be greatly enriched. Public education, so often a dreary and capricious process in the U.S., may be invested with the inspiriting quality of an Oxford tutorial?from preschool on. Medical care will be delivered with greater precision...
...plate of calves' brains washed down with a beer thrice weekly, and you will grow strong and smart. So predicts David Ogilvy's Scotsman father in 1917, when the future advertising genius is a wee tyke of six. Dad speaks sooth. Young David finesses his way into Oxford, drinks, and flunks out cheerfully after two years. A charmer, this youth, right out of Fielding. By now the reader is hooked, and Ogilvy never lets...