Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that the Center has tentatively planned several Spring seminars, including "Current Problems of Political and Economic Development in Southeast Asia," and "imperialism and U. S. Foreign Policy...
...with members of Harvard SDS (Worker-Student Alliance) about the number of speakers to represent each group. NAC's ideology is close to that of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM). RYM and WSA are bitter opponents. Speakers from the two groups finally took turns at the microphone on the southeast steps of University Hall. All five- three from NAC and two from WSA- spoke against the Project...
...that rebellious mold. His father lost his post as a magistrate for associating with the anti-French movement; his mother, who died when Ho was ten, was charged with stealing weapons from French barracks for the rebels. At the time, nationalism was beginning to be a potent force in Southeast Asia, spurred by the generally oppressive colonial rule of the French, British and Dutch. Ironically, nationalism was less a local product than a European import. As Gunnar Myrdal pointed out in Asian Drama: "It was with the intellectual weapons forged in Europe, where liberalism had become the middle-class ideology...
EIGHT or ten times each year, the southeast coast of the U.S. is struck by hurricanes. Born over the warm seas of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, these large cyclonic systems result from a peculiar blend of heat, winds, atmospheric pressure and moisture. Anywhere from 100 to 800 miles across, they rage north toward Cuba or Florida, assaulting everything in their path. Usually, however, they dissipate before they do too much damage, or veer out to sea. Only one out of four hit the U.S. They are ordinary enough so that they are systematically named, always after women-Beulah...
...easy enough for adults to reject the irrationality and hedonism of this ethic. But the young are quick to point out that the most rational and technically accomplished society known to man has led only to racism, repression and a meaningless war in the jungles of Southeast Asia. If that is oversimplification, it is the kind around which ringing slogans are made...