Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RICHARD PIPES BELIEVES the Russian people are condemned to repeat their past, whether they remember it or not. Pipes, a former director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, has spent his years in the History Department trying to prove that Soviet institutions are the product of a Russian consciousness composed o nineteenth-century parts. "There are many similarities between Soviet institutions and institutions in the old regime," Pipes said recently. "Under both systems, the country belongs to the state. The state holds it in "outright ownership. There is nothing like it in the world...
...Unity Boulevard to the presidential palace. The gates had been left ajar, but one tank, followed by several others, smashed through the fence nonetheless, then fired triumphal salvos. One detachment of troops drove off in a Jeep with Minh to an undisclosed location; later he was brought back to repeat his surrender announcement before being whisked away again...
...severe illness. If you are sick, it takes a long time to recuperate energy to perform your task well again. And if you were sick once, it is a reminder that you can become sick again." The dean says that he is concerned that the same events might repeat themselves...
...Radcliffe doubles team of Lissa Muscatine and Denise Thal was ceeded second in last weekend's Seven Sisters (and Ivy) Tournament held at Vassar, making it look like a repeat of last year's tournament, which ended with a showdown with Princeton's number one team in the finals...
...world. "His attitude of mind is a kind of reverent Philistinism, with a broad humor that delights to spread banana peelings in the paths of heroes, a simple pleasure in seeing the aura of sanctity around the traditional arcana as a fog, and a tough honesty that continues to repeat that war is always damnable and tyranny always stupid and persecution always evil, however 'necessary' at any given moment...