Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shahin Shahr, near Isfahan: "We alternate between panic and being very blasé. Some days we don't get a thing accomplished." Desert picnics, once popular, are now regarded as too big a risk for families to take. Says one American housewife: "It's a big social event to sip coffee and listen to the BBC." Armed guards patrol the gates and grounds of American compounds, and at Shahin Shahr, colored flags alert residents to the state of security in the complex: a red flag flown means danger, yellow advises caution and white means all clear. Since...
...year-old social-democratic Ecevit government was being brutally tested in ways similar to the more drastic turmoil in neighboring Iran. But there were also differences. The key one was that the violence that threatened Ecevit's government was based on religious rivalry. One of the factions is Turkey's Shi'ite Muslim minority (known locally as Alevis), which comprises 25% of the country's 41 million people. The Alevis are regarded as left-leaning and generally support Ecevit's Republican People's Party. The other is the country's Sunni Muslim majority...
...belief that art could assist social change was a central idea of the Modernist enterprise. It pervaded the revolutionary idealism of the Russian constructivists, the Bauhaus designers, the Dadaists and Surrealists, even the Abstract Expressionists. It has now ended, and instead of the old faith in a heroic future, we have an institution: the Mausoleum of the Briefly...
EVERY ART has its social commentator. Comic strips have Doonesbury and music has Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. Listening to a Scott-Heron/Jackson album is an educational experience unrivalled by the "education" obtained from such sources as the makers of Dow Bathroom Cleaner, your local Emmy-award-winning eyewitness news team or your favorite daytime game show. It's an experience that gives insight into answers to questions the game show wouldn't ask or events the news team wouldn't cover. It's really a musical eyeglass cleaner...
...computing facilities would enable professors in the social sciences to use computers for teaching and research. Many professors are now unable to use computer facilities, Laws said...