Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lobbyist, he employs no lobbyists, and he does not have a political-action committee. By the standard of interest that the ethics committee seems to be applying to Mallick, says one member of Congress, "I couldn't talk to my own mother. She's 65, and on Social Security...
CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama (Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody facts, a Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often surprising account of what went right -- and wrong -- during one of the world's most celebrated social convulsions...
Furet views contemporary France as a "republic of the center" in which a consensus has emerged in favor of market economics combined with broad social services. "Left-right rhetoric today does not correspond to reality," he says. "France has buried its civil war." Three key changes explain why: the Fifth Republic finally established a strong, stabilizing presidency; the appeal of the Communist Party has withered; and the old antagonism between the Roman Catholic church and state has eased. "The left is in power precisely because it renounced its revolutionary culture," he says...
...most of them, return was a financial and political chimera. Against their wishes and traditions, home became the U.S. Initially, their neighbors regarded them, in Bret Harte's words, as the "Heathen Chinee," an enduring caricature of cheap labor and social isolation, living in towns within cities, operating behind the impenetrable facades of restaurants and laundries. It was decades before the hostility softened to tolerance and, in recent years, to appreciation...
...America's increasingly competitive society, the bad report card -- once fodder for Norman Rockwell and Leave It to Beaver -- is no longer a laughing matter. More and more social workers, educators and police are recognizing that report-card time can trigger a torrent of emotional and physical child abuse. While no national statistics are available, experts in communities nationwide say there is a spurt in the number of children suffering brutal beatings when report cards are sent home...