Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says that the home of the Bolshevik Revolution has paradoxically become more of an empire than it was under the Czars. From the early '20s, after it became obvious that the world revolution expected by Lenin and other leading Bolsheviks was not to be, the Communists had to readjust their thinking. The survival of the Soviet Union was then seen as the essential element needed to preserve the revolution until the time would again be right for the world revolution. The more appealing the Soviet Union is, the better chance there is for foreign embracement of communist ideologies...
Perhaps the hardest thing for students who come here is to try and readjust to their own culture. Most plan to return home, but all of them say they feel somewhat alienated from the cultures in which they grew up. Most foreign students who come here attended high schools geared toward sending graduates overseas, and already felt somewhat alienated--Harvard simply makes that alienation more obvious. Ishikawa suggests it may be especially different for students from traditional cultures to return; she says she worries about going back to a world where women are expected to be subdued, and where arranged...
Leahy said the proposal to readjust the calendar to save money if the "warm zone" experiment was successful is now "completely dead." He said officials presently have no plans for heating measures during next Christmas vacation...
Down the parched readjust outside their house walks a family, a father and mother and perhaps six children. They walk into shadow, and we seem to see doz ens, then hundreds of people, until they fill the screen...
...course, are the fall of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and the virtually complete withdrawal of the American presence from Indochina. Much of last spring's panic in non-Communist Asia has now disappeared. Nonetheless, once staunch American allies like the Philippines and Thailand are still trying to readjust to a world no longer dominated...