Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Not since the 1959 Cuban revolution has Florida's glittering gold coast experienced anything quite like it: almost daily landings, from Key Biscayne to Palm Beach, of rickety wooden boats, some with homemade sails and tree trunks for masts. All are packed, gunwale to gunwale, with Haitian refugees carrying their...
Lévy has clearly pointed out the abyss to which worship of revolution leads. Nonetheless, many Western European intellectuals are still reluctant to face the issue squarely. If the word "pure," when used by adherents of revolution, in effect means "barbarous," perhaps the best the world can hope for...
Where the insane reversal of values lies is in the belief that lotions like "purity" or "corruption" can have any meaning outside an absolute system of values: one that is resistant to the tinkering at will by governments or revolutionary groups. The Cambodian revolution, in its own degraded "purity," has...
DIED. Fyodor Kulakov, 60, Soviet Politburo member and former National Party Secretary for Agriculture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The youngest man to serve simultaneously on the 14-member Politburo and the Secretariat, Kulakov rode out the disastrous grain harvest of 1975 and was reportedly being groomed to succeed...
The 18th century man, all calibration and catalogue, seems shaded by sinister, unscientific paradoxes. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed a "self-evident" truth that all men are created equal and yet owned slaves and may have kept one as his mistress for years; he was an aristocrat and elitist who was implicated...