Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This empathy graces all her writing. She is especially effective in describing the dispossessed, social outcasts or loners whose frustrated dreams fueled the violence and anger of the '60's. In "Notes Toward a Dreampolitik," she focuses on bikers and a young girl who wants to be a movie star. The bikers' childish excesses outrage her, yet she captures their alienation and compares it with the futile dreams of an aspiring star who desperately wants to be known...
Improvement in social services, and not in material goods, has bettered the lives of the masses of Cubans. Cuba appears to have suffered enormously from the American trade embargo declared after Castro nationalized American enterprise without compensation. A simply dressed woman who works as a seamstress in central Havana said that although no one is starving, there are no high quality foods and inadequate supplies of what is available. Strict rationing provides her and her fellow workers three cans of condensed milk each month, five pounds of rice, and one pound of meat every nine days. Well into her sixties...
Salaries in Cuba range from 200 pesos a month for the least skilled laborer to 1200 for top professionals. There is a rough-hewn egalitarianism based mainly on the universal availability of social services, the disappearance of the foreign elite, and the nationalization of luxurious private homes, which are now available at moderate rents to vacationing Cubans. Much of the egalitarianism is symbolic, but it still has a perceptible effect on attitudes. Senor and Senorita have been discredited as the preferred form of address in favor of companero[a], comrade. Castro is never seen publicly in anything other than army...
While I am quickly breaking away from the "party solidarity" argument that Carter must be renominated, I am not leading myself into believing that Kennedy, a longtime proponent of national health insurance and other important social reforms, is the liberal deity that many seem to believe and want of him as a national leader...
Supply economics has as many meanings as there are economic philosophies. To the serious student of economics, whether it be Social Analysis 10 or any other level, the supply side is simply the resource-production-cost aspect which is a part of any economic system, and is at the center of most socialist and less-developed economies. Advanced industrial societies seemed to have the production problems solved, and their business cycles appeared to originate mainly in fluctuations of private and public demands. The Keynesian analysis seemed appropriate since its focus was on the demand side...