Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being a traditional housewife and mother. At times during the afternoon the discussion became heated, as Katiti, Susanna, Gail S. Macdougal '78-4 and Marguerite B. Walker '79 talked about an experience far different from that of the average Harvard student. The talk ranged from how they decided to return to school, to the nuts and bolts of combining children and college...
...experience shared by all the women was the trauma of both living and breaking with traditional roles as wives, lovers and mothers. Marguerite was living in the South, working on dead-end jobs, when she decided to return to school. Her son, Kristopher, was born three weeks before her first final exams at a small southern college, and his birth marked a change in Marguerite's life. "I wasn't aware of my abilities, and then I found myself doing impossible things. My mother-in-law couldn't believe I was going to school. She thought that was an awful...
...Romanians accept a rigid party control and internal monopoly of power by Ceaucescu and his entourage including a fulsome personality cult) in return for a sense of national pride and independence unique in their history of foreign domination. The Russians put up with the luxury of a separate Romanian 'place in the sun', secure in the knowledge that no Prague spring of liberalisation will appear on the streets of Bucharest. With Ceaucescu playing the nationalism and religion cards so skillfully, dissident opposition is weak...
...autonomous Romanian Orthodox Church, historically a focus for national identity, is allowed a privileged if not official role in the State: in return, the Patriarch and his fellow bishops acknowledge their part in "building up Socialism," and confine their interests to liturgical and non-political activity. The regime remains one of the tightest and most Stalinist in the Communist world--and it is there that the trade-off lies...
...demands of dissenting national groups such as the Crimean Tartars (deported by Stalin to Siberia and who wish to return to their homeland), or the Jews and Volga Germans (who wish to emigrate to Israel or Germany), do not pose an automatic ideological challenge--though when linked to the protest of intellectuals they can form a serious challenge. Perhaps most potentially disturbing is the emergence of a genuine workers' movement agitating for independent trade union activity with a potential mass appeal. This explains why the authorities have clamped down so heavily on Vladimir Klebanov and his numerically small group...