Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again and again. This is not to deny that there is cause for great celebration and great joy for millions in Europe and their compatriots worldwide. There is. And there is great hope in Gorbachev's words for peaceful and calm change toward true self-government, toward social welfare and peace. But the reminder provided also by these great changes is how intractable, irrational and powerful the undercurrents of the old problems are, even as they take new form...
Even if we exempt ROTC from this particular policy, saying it applies only to "social organizations," shouldn't Harvard be encouraging the "time-to-time" campus activity of other political or governmental groups? If Harvard students are involved, should we fail to officially sanction the voices of the Ku Klux Klan, of neo-Nazi groups, of McCarthy-like Communist scares? The answer to these questions is obvious. No! We cannot allow this type of behavior to be expressed on our campus. It is a direct attack on the human dignity accorded to all members of the Harvard community...
...appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
...League kind of student, and I don't get into the social atmosphere as much as some people here," he says. "I can't say that I love the school, but I can say without question that I love every person in the hockey program, every player and every coach. I'd go through a wall for any oneof them. I think a lot of us feel that way. And Ithink that's why we were so successful last year...
...where are the students? They are being forced to spend their Pell grants and scholarships on expensive private health insurance. If ever there were an issue for the 1990s, an issue that combines social consciousness with a healthy dose of self-interest, it is the issue of creating a national health care system...