Word: roote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Verba has written extensively on social, political and economic equality. Equality in America: The View from the Top, which Verba co-authored in 1985, analyzes how the inequalities inevitably arising from capitalism can be reconciled with the equality which must be the root of democracy...
...mother, Zachary says, Hope has always tried to impart egalitarianism and concern about social issues to her son. "In bringing me up, she always tried to root out any kind of complacency, and she never permitted arrogance or elitism," he says...
...walking through Harvard Square two nights ago when a man with a sign informed me that fascism had come to America. Fearing the worst--that, as his sign proclaimed, Nazism had taken root in our country--I went over to him and took the reading material he was handing to passersby...
...camp. But the government has drawn up plans for a network of raised helipads and local flood shelters to facilitate the distribution of emergency aid if, as seems inevitable, disaster strikes again. Meanwhile, the country can only appeal to its Himalayan neighbors to do something about the root cause of the flooding: the deforestation of watersheds in India and Nepal that has turned seasonal monsoons into "unnatural disasters...
There are no moral complexities here, no cunning passages of history, no double agents trading allegiances for meaning. But there is a tumultuous plot, an appealing young protagonist -- who except Hitler could root against a pre- pubescent? -- and a prime villain. Colonel Gregor Laemmle, the SS officer in pursuit of Thomas, is far more than the usual posturing sadist. A former philosophy professor, he is a connoisseur of art and literature and something of a chess master himself. Laemmle regards the hunting of Thomas as a large- scale tournament, with gambits to be savored even when they go against...