Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader of the delegation is Huan Xiang, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a diplomat and journalist who disappeared from public view during the Cultural Revolution. The group includes leading Chinese anthropologist Fei Xiaotong...
Dorothy M. Lewis, business manager of the Psychology and Social Relations Department, said yesterday she and some other Harvard employees formed University Citizens Against Nukes (UCAN) about two weeks ago, because unlike students and faculty, the employees are "not easy to organize on any issue...
...addition to the petition drive UCAN has also planned a series of educational programs for the University Community about nuclear energy and its problrms. On May 16, a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility is scheduled to speak on the health hazards of radiation, and on May 23, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, will discuss the problem of nuclear power...
Shaw's personae are the languishing leisure class engaged in social masquerade: "How are we to have any self-respect," complains the fraudulent investor, "if don't keep it up that we're better than we really are?" And to top it off, there is mad Captain Shotover endlessly traversing the stage in search of the seventh degree of concentration, leaving behind him a wake of nonsensical criticism, and them harrumphing back across the stage with still more. Yes, Heartbreak House is a madhouse--but it is England as well...
...plot development, to express characterization and the atmosphere of pre-war England. But while the Loeb production evoked a dismal and saturnine mood, emphasizing the tragedy in Chekhov's tragicomic style, this version of Heartbreak House is too delightful a farce to be subdued by Shaw's satire of social mores...