Word: socializer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farms to grow grain instead of cash crops. Yang would like Hunan and its 56 million people to imitate Guangdong. He is even seeking investment from the neighboring province. But the desire for prosperity does not seem as deeply rooted in Hunan as in Guangdong, particularly among older people. "Social morality has deteriorated," complains a 63-year-old retired party cadre in Hunan. "There are no more nameless heroes. Everybody thinks about making money...
...vision of the afterlife -- it's hell as a strangled bureaucracy. In the waiting room, where the exit signs read NO EXIT, the dead still carry scars of their demise. A magician's assistant, who has been fatally sawed in half, occupies two seats on a couch. The social worker who runs the place is clearly overworked; she has an alarm on her wristwatch that plays Chopin's Funeral March in ricky-tick time...
...hunt for a house began about three years ago, when Mrs. Reagan's friends Betsy Bloomingdale and Marion Jorgensen began a surreptitious search in the area. But word got around the real estate circuit, and the women were besieged by eager brokers. When a social acquaintance of Jorgensen's telephoned her to say that her elderly, recently widowed niece might want to part with her St. Cloud home, Jorgensen and Bloomingdale found what they -- and the Reagans -- had been looking for. In August 1986, Wall Management quietly bought the house and leased it back to the widow, who has since...
Paychecks have fallen so far behind spiraling rents that half the 13 million American families living in poverty are devoting a crushing 50% or more of their meager incomes to shelter. Higher up the social scale, the housing market is thwarting the dream of home ownership for additional millions of mostly young people. They remain in apartments because they cannot afford the high cash down payments and interest rates needed to buy a house. In fact, the U.S. has reversed a four-decade trend toward greater home ownership. The percentage of all households that own their homes, after climbing...
...list, which was never meant to be exhaustive, will be supplemented by readings that will vary depending on the emphasis of different CIV teachers. Yet the compromise is a clear signal that Stanford intends to recognize the essential pluralism of Western civilization -- in literary as well as social terms. The major remaining question is how far professors will go in bringing the study of women and minorities into CIV courses...