Word: threads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-ordered schedules, behind the complacency, lie problems as serious as those in the '60s. Some of them are less strikingly visible than their predecessors, but all cry out for solution today, not after they have become acute dangers to the University's day-to-day life. A single thread ties them all together: the University's aversion to public responsibility, whether it be to South Africans and others affected by its investments, to residents of the community it dominates, or to its own students and employees...
...thought-provoking commentaries by Henry Kissinger and the other foreign policy analysts [May 12] presented different viewpoints, but there seemed to be one common thread throughout their remarks: we don't have a foreign policy that is understood by Congress, the American people or our allies...
Finally at the end of this sluggish carousel ride, we appreciate the author's dogged pursuit of a common thread with which to bind the many tasks Harvard educators have undertaken. His disgruntled conclusion...
...October 1917 revolution. After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky lost a struggle for power to Stalin; this ended in Trotsky's banishment and Stalin's Great Purge of supposed "Trotskyites" in the late 1930s. The consequences of that savage quarrel run like a sanguinary thread throughout the Trotsky correspondence...
...have followed the single thread of nuclear weapons and attached some other strands to that thread to suggest a bleak view of the 70s. This would be a one-sided picture for me personally, since I can think of more than one issue at a time. The 70s have also seen what I regard as the mot significant cultural development of the decade: namely, the women's movements in all their variety and, at times, short-sighted over-confidence leading to backlash. The women's movements have affected not only the upper educated strata, but have filtered into the rest...