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...decade, what with McCarthyism, segregation, the Cold War, the universal conservatism and intolerance. But modern Fifties nostalgia, generated by people who were children back then, is a peculiar kind of tunnel vision that never notices such nastiness. America was complacent and happy, a superpower without a rival in any sphere, and the meaning of life could be easily fit into a popular song with room for doo-wops and a chorus. What a time it was. No wonder we can't seem to get enough...
...graveyards of the economic reforms. The record of the anti-rightist campaign as well as the experience of the attempt to limit the spread of Western and "bourgeois" ideas, the drive against "spiritual pollution" only three years ago, indicates that such movements inevitably spill over into the economic sphere...
Concern about the honor code's effectiveness ultimately prompted a student-faculty committe to examine the system in 1954, says Radcliffe's archivist, Jeanne Knowles. The committee concluded that "...in the academic sphere, the honor system is ineffectual as a guide to conduct at the present time...
...those who work for him, Adnan Khashoggi is not a constellation but the very center of a mysterious and splendiferous universe. His is a dazzling and ostentatious realm of luxury beyond the dreams of Croesus, a shadowy sphere of deals, arms brokering and billion-dollar investments. But with Khashoggi's well-publicized role as the middleman in America's arms-for-hostages deals with Iran, light has been cast on the sometimes shaky financial state of his private and public dealings. Like the arms sales to Iran, several of his recent investments have been ill-conceived, botched deals...
Quoting the French philospoher Rousseau, Lloyd said that "Plato had abolished the feminine sphere and that actually men and women differ in mind...