Word: theoreticians
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...speech is also useful in another respect: it gives a sense of Salvador Allende's cheerful energy, of his warm personality bubbling constantly from a fire within. He speaks not as a hardened theoretician, but as a friendly doctor, not as a president, but as a companero...
...Marxist renaissance defies current European realities at several points. One is the spiritual drabness of life in East bloc nations, where Communist dogmatism simply will not tolerate what one Polish theoretician dismisses as "Marxist dead talk." By and large, students in Poland and Hungary are baffled by the enthusiasm of their counterparts in the West for Marxism. In fact, to some young East Europeans Marx and Lenin are not exactly household words. Asked to identify them, a girl in Belgrade pondered for a moment and then guessed: "Two brothers...
...Lord is my shepherd," Christopher Jencks tells Freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre, "I shall not want." Asked about his strategy this year, Coach Joe Restic, radical theoretician of Soldiers Field, explains his theory that "not only is the best defense a good offense, but the best offense is a good offense." Questioned about his team's chances. Restic confides in the journalists "his conviction" that "on any given Saturday, any team can beat any other team." "Luckily," Restic observes, "all our games are on Saturday this year." President Nixon proclaims Cambridge, Massachusetts, the "National Halloween Disaster Area." Cambridge returns...
WHEN JOHN T. DUNLOP is not keeping watch over the Faculty of Arts and Science, he wings his way around the country mediating labor management disputes. Dunlop in considered the nation's foremost labor theoretician and negotiator. Last Spring, when teaching fellows irate because of an abruptly announced change in financial aid policy formed the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union, they anticipated sparring with a canny and skilled adversary...
...would not seek any liberalization of the rigid authoritarian rule that the Russians have forced Husák to reimpose on the country. After several days of court sessions, from which foreign press and public were barred, the judges imposed sentences of up to six years on former Party Theoretician Jaromir Litera, Sociologist Rudolf Battek, Historian Jan Tesař and others. Five defendants were given suspended sentences. More important leaders of the Prague spring, including Milan Hübl, former chief of the Party Training College, and Liberal Journalist Jiři Hochman, are still in prison and awaiting trial...