Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theater group will present a revised version of Aristophanes' The Clouds this weekend on the steps of Widener. The play originally satirized the moral corruption in Athens that resulted from the rise of the Sophists as the dominant philosophers of their day. Black Star, a group dedicated to achieving social change through drama, has updated the play and given it a more familiar setting. The Clouds now exposes the sophistry of the Harvard Administration, as exemplified by President Bok's open letters. Should anyone miss the point, the name of the hero has been changed from Sokrates to Bokrates...
...know with whom this obscene parody of social concern originated. I am ashamed to think that my own class is producing people who think nothing of employing deceit and insincerity in the name of sound, responsible business practice. I am more encouraged, however, by the incompetence of their efforts. Such is the transparency of this grotesque ploy...
Perhaps this is an ontological question, in which case you and I have something to settle. I'm sick of my social security number and political arguments. I can't make it into Studio 54 and meet Bianca Jagger. I need some shelter, some cleavage...
...media has treated the punk kind like a troupe of naughty, hyperactive children, with reports of trends and fads and strange costumes and ultimately, it all boils down to social satire and pure rock fun. But there is something more to punk--and the broader genre of rock known as new wave--than release. It is the angst itself. You won't feel it in a record store or even at concert, but at the cheap bars where you can hear the music in its own native setting, it's more than...
That leaves only drastic cuts in social and welfare programs to finance the tax-cuts--and here we come to an uncanny similarity between the position of Mrs. Thatcher and that of Gov. Edward J. King in Massachusetts--except that in Britain there will be no liberal state legislature to mitigate savage reductions in help for the elderly, poor, sick and disadvantaged...