Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Would you do it again?" the volunteers are asked on questionnaires at the end of their Peace Corps service. Nine out of ten say "Yes.". "We learned a lot," is the common theme. But there is all the difference in the world between young Americans learning "a lot" and official...
Helping a country sidestep revolution, building a new nation, promoting world peace--these are large achievements. Few activities of the Peace Corps seem to merit such grandiose description. In the Dominican Republic, volunteers in urban-development projects are organizing neighborhood clinics or helping to obtain piped water for a barrio...
Here Harvard is already on its way. Two of the authors listed by Rimmer are already on the Harvard Faculty. Yes, Gordon W. Allport, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology Emeritus, have made Harrad's golden circle of authors with Becoming and...
The debate bristles with modern implications, but in intellectual terms it is platitudinous and inconclusive. "The play's chief aim," Sade observes, "has been to take to bits Great Propositions and their opposites." On the emotional plane, however, there is no doubt about who wins. The inmates set up...
In the end, they get what they want. Marat, stabbed by a spastic Charlotte Corday (Glenda Jackson), lies weltering in his tub of blood. The director of the asylum and his guests politely applaud the conclusion of the piece; but the inmates, identifying with their roles, run suddenly amuck. Fighting...