Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The old vision abroad of an incorrigibly profligate America led to skepticism about Carter's energy speeches. "I cannot believe Carter," said Thomas Jensen, an Oslo plumber, "until I see his words transformed into results, and that depends on Americans, who waste energy so badly." Vienna's daily...
To TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was in Havana 20 years ago when Fidel Castro's bearded guerrillas marched into that city, there were striking parallels between the revolution in Cuba and the one that many observers expect will take hold in Nicaragua. The FSLN'S Slogan, FREE...
In traditionalist Portugal, voters and politicians alike could not help being tantalized by the choice of Pintassilgo as the stopgap Premier charged with forming an interim government to prepare for early elections this fall. The country has been without a government since early June when a reformist Cabinet of political...
Few modern poets have got so worked up over their women as Louis Aragon and Vladimir Mayakovsky. For nearly 40 years the poet laureate of the French Communist Party rhapsodized in verse over Les Yeux d'Elsa and other cherished features of his wife Elsa Triolet. Mayakovsky, the bard...
Some efforts seem to be under way to break away from the stifling past. There is, for instance, a fledgling underground pornographic press called sexizdat (after the samizdat underground literary movement). Stern also reveals that daring protesters have been dropping pornographic doodles into ballot boxes. Yet in spite of such...