Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poems of Phyllis Wheatley and the prose of Gustava Vassa first spoke of this affirmation. In their works we observe the contradictory interpretation of the social and political reality of Afro-Americans. On the one hand were the horrors of slavery and the middle passage, while on the other hand were the possibilities of redemption and affirmation of the humanistic ideal of man which the Christian religion promised, and which ob-jectively spoke of the noblest ideals of man. It was, I suspect, the attempt to bring forth a synthesis of these two antagonistic poles that became the modus operandiof...
...policy favoring corporate withdrawal or, for the matter, non-expansion of existing business operations. Instead, it has chosen to evaluate the record of each corporation separately, weighing the individual benefits to certain black South African employees (in the form of desegregated facilities, opportunites for promotion, etc.) against the overall social burden to the wider black population. This has been both in theory and practice a woefully inadequate response...
Anthony duPont Prieto IV '82, another member of the committee, said yesterday the survey will "emphasize needs and concerns of the Class of '82 and increase social awareness of the Freshman Council and its activities...
Knowles, who had been hospitalized eight weeks with pancreatic cancer, became president of the Rockefeller Foundation seven years ago. The foundation provides grants amounting to $44 million a year to medical research and to projects which address social problems throughout the world...
...such a bill been in effect when the Advent Corporation, a major manufacturer of stereo equipment, decided to leave Cambridge late last year, the company would have had to give employees a year's advance notice, Karen Zweig, labor advocate for the Massachusetts Social and Economic Opportunity Council, said yesterday...