Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discussing his course, Matthews said, "We give the student readings in ethics-as-a-discipline as well as a number of case studies which have ethical, moral, and social responsibility dimensions. The course will not give you answers, but it will sharpen the definition of the problem and one's thinking of the problem...
...shaping itself into a force to be reckoned with on the Harvard theater scene. Enthusiastically sponsored by the administration, in part because of the fortuitous coincidence of the Radcliffe centennial celebrations producing many grants for innovative Radcliffe women, Black Star has set itself up as a theater group for social change. It has no party line, no master plan. According to Nancy Krieger, one of the co-founders, it wants only to provide a continuum for people who want to do theater with a social/political/feminist message, and are interested in interaction with the audience, interaction with the audience...
Contemporary events offer a constant workout for the enterprising historian. American installations and American arms have bulked large in the modernization program for Iran in recent decades, but the program has been unexpectedly upset by a social revolution in a religious form. Meanwhile, after thirty years of estrangement, American business is now undertaking to assist modernization in China, where the social revolution of Mao Tse-tung has already occured. Iran and China could hardly be more different, but the American approach to the two places may have certain similarities worth pondering...
...religious overtones, but the Chinese people on the whole seem capable of seeking happiness without benefit of revealed religion. This is what made them so interesting to philosophers of the 18th century Enlightenment. Fanaticism is not their normal state of mind. Under Mao they carried through a very considerable social revolution and the Chinese leadership in coming years is not likely to forget about it. Chinese common sense is also reinforced by Chinese poverty. They have not suffered the affluence derived from great oil exports. In short, their social revolution has kept ahead of their technological revolution, somewhat the opposite...
Finally, if we take it upon ourselves to monitor the state of human rights in foreign lands to which we send aid, why should we not with an equal sense of responsibility try to monitor the social and other impacts of our business activities there...