Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Chicele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford, Berlin also served as president of Wolfson College there from 1966 to 1975. He came to Harvard as a visiting lecturer in 1949, 1951 and 1953. Born in Latvia in 1909, he was knighted in 1957 as "one of the liveliest and most stimulating minds among contemporary philosophers...
...more harm than good, and he especially disapproves of manipulating government tax and expenditure rates to stabilize the economy. A firm believer in limiting the role of government, Friedman has called for the abandonment of federal regulatory agencies, the public school system, occupational and professional licensing boards and the Social Security system. His books include Capitalism and Freedom (1962), and he won the Nobel Prize for economics...
...ordered in the police; the memory of that day and its aftermath is for them, at best, a muddled one. And so it is convenient to believe those who proclaim that ours is a completely different generation of students, an apathetic and self-oriented one, a generation unconcerned with social protest or political issues. It is tempting to think that too much has changed since...
Many GSAS students feel that the lack of a center for social and intellectual communication between students of different departments is the GSAS's single worst problem. "We lack any kind of community feeling," Moynihan says. The GSC hopes next year to provide a graduate student center for students to meet other graduate students...
...stressed enough--there is a total absence of any facilities for social and intellectual get-togethers on the level of the undergraduate house system," explains Lee Smolin, a graduate student in Physics and a GSC member. GSC members will look for a center on campus this summer, and hope to arrange GSAS intramural sports next year as another attempt to foster community spirit...