Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Still, on balance it seems that the cause of free speech has been served by the controversy. The debate in The Crimson and the audience of more than 400 who attended the conference demonstrate the interest in discussing the issues significantly outweighs the interest in suppressing them. Dr. Nancy Uhlar Murray '67 Conference Organizer
Reviews of books by Radcliffe graduates are more biting and willingly critical than before. They still include representatives from the cooking, quilting and gardening genres; but now also focus on books of literary criticism, poetry, and labor history. A new section on "Art and Artists" announces recent readings, exhibitions, dramatic performances, and concerts given by alumnae...
...atmospherics and rhetoric along the Potomac became more appreciative during the summer, but what Marxists (there are still a few left in Moscow) call the "objective realities" of U.S. policy remained pretty much unchanged. A few days before the Pentagon cuts, an adviser to Gorbachev seemed to be expressing his boss's exasperation: "Our leader is presiding, with incredible boldness and at incredible risk, over the perestroika not just of our own country, but of the entire international order, and your leader keeps saying, 'Thanks, good luck, and have a nice day.' What do we have...
Similarly, human rights violations must be taken in context. A soldier in any country who is being attacked by stones from three different directions is not expected to stand still and take the punishment. Unlike in China and in Algeria, where in the past year peaceful demonstrations were broken up by a hail of gunfire and murder, the Israelis are reacting to the violent protests with considerable restraint. Dealing with such protests is a very difficult, but necessary, task that can never be done "peacefully." That is not to say that no abuses have occurred, but what can one really...
...reason we are here tonight is becausepeople are still dying in Cambodia, and if theKhmer Rouge sneak their way into power because theWest considers them as a part of a legitimategovernment, there will be more bloodshed," Chandrasaid...