Word: thatcherism
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...Harvard hired me; and I am doubly puzzled by memories of Professor Patterson admitting that his own intellectual development had been crucially aided by a celebrated seminar at the London School of Economics on the sociology of development. There is no truth to the notion, avidly propogated by Margaret Thatcher, that British sociology (and British academia more generally) has brought troubles on its own head. It seems to me shameful that a sociologist repeats such slander: Surely some solidarity is owed to one's colleagues abroad? The Thatcher/Patterson position is false, meretricious and reprehensible...
...Muslims, are said to weigh in when Ecumenical Patriarchs are chosen. But imagine Italy's Prime Minister appointing a Pope, or President Bush picking the Presiding Bishop of his Episcopal Church. Just such a church-state mesh will occur in Britain in the coming months as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepares to choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of some 70 million Anglicans and Episcopalians worldwide...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally appealed to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for clemency, but to no avail. After the hanging, Iraqi Information Minister Latif Nassif Jassim told journalists, "Mrs. Thatcher wanted him alive. We gave her the body...
...elegiac title poem Westward is about another journey, from London's Euston Station by rail toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Contemplating Margaret Thatcher's England, she reflects on the "frayed-/ out gradual of the retreat from empire." The Prairie is a reverie, expressed with extreme simplicity, on the peregrinations of her forebears from the Midwest to California and back again. "To be landless, half a nomad, nowhere wholly/ at home, is to discover, now, an epic theme/ in going back," she concludes. Clampitt is wisest when she is plainest. At her best, she writes poetry that, in Marianne Moore...
...beheaded four of the King's ministers. A similar levy is scheduled to take effect April 1 in England and Wales, and though decapitation has not been mentioned, the reaction has been anything but mild. Across Britain last week, furious crowds stormed local government chambers, burned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in effigy, looted stores and battled police. Scores were arrested and dozens injured...