Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four years now, I have shared my thoughts with the Harvard population. I think, sometimes, that it would have been easier to say nothing. And, of course, it would have been. For the private sphere is a great deal more comfortable than the public, and J. S. Mill never promised believers in his disputatious Nirvana a free ride...
...have spoken of obligations and allegiance without mentioning benefits, for they are plenty--even if they come at an enormous cost. One reward for entering the public sphere is being able to set the agenda. When you feel strongly about an issue, whether it be the grape boycott, a multicultural student center or the park in Quincy Square, you can get people concerned about it and possibly hitch a caravan to your lead...
...convinced my phone interviewer that social studies is the study of how Weber, Foucault and Habermas have contributed to theories of market share and advertising. I talked about the relationship of the Budweiser frog to the bourgeois public sphere. I said that Coke is a well-marketed product...
...Cyberspace vs. Meatspace" examines how applicable tangible realm laws are for the virtual world of "Cyberspace," which transcends the physical sphere of individual and national borders...
...Shipyard might never have taken off. Without him, Solidarity might never have been born. Without him, it might not have survived martial law and come back triumphantly to negotiate the transition from communism to democracy. And without the Polish icebreaking, Eastern Europe might still be frozen in a Soviet sphere of influence, and the world would be a very different place. With all Walesa's personal faults, his legacy is a huge gain in freedom, not just for the Poles. His services were, as an old Polish slogan has it, "for our freedom--and yours...