Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union, Fritz describes the violent and turbulent social migrations created by these changes. In Eastern Europe people free from oppressive communist regimes for the first time in generations poured into Berlin. Citizens of Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries fled to West Germany, while many West Germans took advantage of their opportunity to travel in East Germany again. Fritz writers that "Everywhere, everyone caught a scent of something--prosperity, pop culture, maybe--and went a little loony," Romanian Gypsies came to Berlin mostly in dire...
Every so often, though, the truly random Harvard architecture miraculously forms a logical space for social gatherings. These spaces become renowned and students flock to them on weekend nights...
...amenities that lend itself to a social center, like it connects to a triple below us with a ladder," says George W. Hicks '99, another seven man resident...
...party tradition has ceded additional amenities to this social life hot spot. Some residents a few years back bought a bar, which now comes with the room, warning students to either hold parties or move...
When I'm finally at home, snuggled in bed with my glass of water beside me, I'm glad I ventured into the wilds of the Harvard social scene. Not only was it fun, but I feel like I've been through the rough and back again. It gives me more to talk about over brunch than writing a sophomore paper, working on a chem problem set or sitting around watching a movie...