Word: serfdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persuaded them to take a class-conscious view of history. By its achievement, it seems to have given them more self-esteem and pride in their country than the mass of Russians have ever had before. Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose manners were formed by centuries of serfdom. No longer pervasive is the type that Lenin belittled as "the exhausted, hysterical, misery-mongering intellectual who, publicly beating his breast, cries: 'I am bad, I am vile...
...become quite fashionable to explain that computers are not actually very intelligent. That's true. But--as the chromosome project shows--they are fast, and willing to do the dirty work. One current Center project which utilizes computer serfdom fully is a linguistics study, in which Oettinger has done much of the fundamental research...
Thus ended, at least temporarily, the political career of one of Latin America's most fascinating and controversial statesmen. Paz was one of the organizers of the 1952 revolt that overturned the tin barons and emancipated the Bolivian population from virtual serfdom. As President for all but four years since then, he pushed through needed tax reforms, redistributed land, built roads and hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable...
...Wherever he went, he said he sensed a desire among some Republicans for a more conservative course. He had read Locke and Burke, and he was deeply influenced by Friedrich A. Hayek, professor of social and moral science at the University of Chicago and author of The Road to Serfdom. Hayek, a convincing conservative, argued against the progressive income tax, warned that a controlled economy and the modern trends of social legislation would lead to collectivism and ultimately to totalitarianism. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind, with its cogent arguments against a planned society, similarly stirred Goldwater...
...Senses. A onetime lawyer, soldier and economics professor, Paz is short and swarthy, with gentle brown eyes and a friendly humor. Yet in 1952, he led a social revolution that emancipated the population from virtual serfdom and crushed the power of the army. In its early days, like Mexico's PRI in the first stages of the Mexican revolution, Paz's National Revolutionary Movement operated with a heavy hand, sending its enemies to concentration camps or into exile. Today, though it is plagued by entrenched party politicians ("Tammany Hall," Paz calls them), the party probably speaks...