Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robinson said the coming years will see "thepromotion at the international level of economic,social and cultural rights, and the right todevelopment...
...flashy lights and technological miracles, has fully transformed the city of Robespierre, Victor Hugo and Jean-Paul Sartre. This transformation is unfortunate. It is an even sadder reflection on our country that, internationally, America has come to represent shopping malls, MTV, Big Macs and E.R. However, many of the social and behavioral norms associated with consumerism have not crossed the ocean back to the old world. Perhaps because of the semi-socialist basis of the French government or the eternal quest for liberty, equality and fraternity, the American cult of the consumer as we know it does not exist here...
After reading hundreds of pages of Marx this year and spending a year indoctrinated by the liberally slanted Social Studies Committee, I have come to associate capitalism and all of its ramifications as, well, evil. But I didn't realize until I left the U.S. that I--and probably the rest of us--take certain advantages of our capitalistic society for granted. Consumerism makes our life much easier; the glitches of daily life have been paved over. When things go wrong, someone in uniform and badge is usually there, with a smile and a degree...
Dafna V. Hochman '00, a social studies concentrator in Adams House, is interning for the State Department in Paris this summer...
...novel, A Darker Shade of Crimson. This often misrepresentative book all but circumvents necessary discussion of important racial issues on campus, and it paints high-ranking university officials as one-dimensional puppets at best. Overburdened with persistent and less-than-subtle reminders of Harvard's prominent place in upperclass social circles, A Darker Shade of Crimson will probably appeal most to those people for whom such arguably false depictions remain valid fantasies...