Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assassinated in 1978, probably on the orders of dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. A year later, the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza, thanks partly to La Prensa's valiant editorials and the Chamorro family's money. Then the widow Chamorro watched in horror as the Sandinistas, whom she had mistaken for unorthodox social democrats, revealed the extent of their allegiance to Moscow and Cuba and their disdain for democratic politics...
...born, on Oct. 18, 1929, in the southern Nicaraguan town of Rivas, near the border with Costa Rica. Her father, a wealthy landowner and cattle rancher, sent his seven children abroad to school. Their idea of hardship was bathing in a cold lake at their country cottage. Acute social injustice consisted of being invited to two cotillions on the same evening. When Violeta was 19, she was introduced to an intense-looking young man from Managua whose family owned La Prensa. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro inspected Violeta's deeply sunned face and nicknamed her "Morenita," the dark one. He invited...
...what have students gained if their education was solely derived from friends, roommates or clubs. They could get the same experience from a new job and home, any other college or any good summer camp. Why go to Harvard and waste money, if all you seek is social experience...
...heart of Harvard's enormous officialdom. Moreover, an endless series of advisers are placed throughout the school in order to make the University more "sensitive" and "aware." The residential Houses, intended as intellectual enclaves within a large university, have become the best place to talk about one's sexual, social or drug problems, but not ideas--your's or anyone else...
Students fought the change by claiming the right to choose, and won in the short term because masters themselves disagreed over how much social engineering was necessary to ensure "diversity," and because the masters' plan was to be unequally applied to all the houses. But when the dean of the College reversed the decision in March, he announced his resolve to forge a consensus on a better plan to enforce diversity this fall. As well he should. Not wanting to live together is not the answer to the problem of pluralism...