Word: social
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominate Jane Fonda for Woman of the Year. Her cinematic tours de force Coming Home and The China Syndrome have firmly established her as America's premier social critic, political activist and actress...
...Islam is, as much as anything else, the repository for grievances, envies and hatreds that Third World have-nots harbor for the privileged of the globe. Islam gives cohesion to complaints about the injustices of the world. The Muslim tradition provides the language and symbolism to express a wide social message: it is not necessarily a religious phenomenon. It is not antiChristian. In fact, Muslims really regard modern Westerners as a species of pagan. Ironically, some of the resentment has been aroused by the emergence of oil-rich classes within the Islamic countries themselves. With that wealth came a widening...
...from the traditional chador, permitted to vote and divorce their husbands. The Shah made the mistake of ignoring the mullahs (priests). The U.S., in turn, embraced him, and even had the CIA engineer a coup to restore him to power in 1953. Corruption, dislocations of life and profoundly disorienting social change all accompanied his rule; so did political suppression and the tortures of SAVAK, his secret police. The U.S. was inextricably implicated in the career of this potentate-Ozymandias and Faust-and shared the people's judgment of him when it came...
STIAWOL. Stee-ah-wol. Star Trek Is A Way Of Life. It was a television program that boldy went where no T.V. program had gone before: into a bizarre space-time continuum that social scientists termed a subculture, style writers called a fad, pop-culture analysts hailed as a phenomenon, and Time Magazine, in its wisdom, dismissed as a "cult vogue of the half-educated...
...economics a "progressive" tax is one that is levied with respect to the taxpayer's income; a "regressive" tax is one that is levied irrespective of the taxpayer's income. By failing to define these terms, Mr. Feinberg left himself free to associate "progressive" taxes with progress and social justice while associating "regressive" taxes with Louis...