Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The church asked for more "space" in Cuban society, the chance to play a larger role within the traditional Catholic concerns of education, charity, public worship. The dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall crushed all that, eliminating any interest Castro had in rapprochement with the church. He needed every ounce...
"The Cubans are pretty smart about how they're playing this," says a senior State Department official in Washington. "They are unlikely to have gone ahead with the visit unless they thought they could control it." Castro is betting that he will reap significant rewards. His aides may bristle at...
TIME: "The revolution" has become an amazingly elastic term these days. Doesn't the term become hollow?
Alarcon: That's not my impression. In a way, he feels very happy that that issue [of succession] has been fundamentally solved. The answer is not to pretend that you have to have another Fidel. The problem is deeper than that: how to continue the development of the revolution. If...
You reported Grove's view that technology is not good or bad, it just happens. That may be a reflection of society, but I'm still naive enough to want heroes. I want leaders to proclaim that if used wisely, this technology can provide one of the seminal moments in...