Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom I didn't even know) to get involved and come to my aid both during and after the incident. I was cheered to read that this selflessness was again demonstrated by the students involved in yesterday's incident. It is very heartening to know that, contrary to popular advice to yell "fire" when one needs help, here at Harvard, a cry for "help" will still evoke an overwhelming response...
...Special Section. What happened in Vichy seems like a stale story; but what happened in Greece during the dictatorship was genuinely tragic. There's nothing really wrong with making more than one film about political repression, but in a world where political repression easily wins prizes for the most popular form of government, a director like Costa-Gavras should stick to contemporary situations suited to his style, and leave history alone...
...Popular Front. Revel admits that Communists can effectively exploit the contradictions in capitalist societies to lure nations to disaster. They "destroy, in the name of socialism, political democracy and install systems that are neither democratic nor socialist and that are, to boot, economically and humanely very inferior to capitalism." One step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween...
With the farmers' support, the Center Social Democrats, a rightist, free-enterprise party that won only 7% of the vote in last April's elections, confidently expects to become at least the nation's third largest party. The center-left Popular Democrats, although hurt by internal party divisions, are also expected to gain strength in the spring voting, perhaps even outpolling Mario Scares' moderately leftist Socialists, the largest vote getters in last spring's elections. A secret army poll recently leaked to the press predicted a meager 6% vote for Portugal's Communist Party...
...become one of the most popular institutions at Stanford-largely because it seems to work. "I got a lot out of LAC-10," says Debbie Sloss, a junior. "I see things much more analytically now." Admits Bill Shankle, a junior and a graduate of a LAC study-skills course: "One finds that even if he is just innately a genius, he has got to study...