Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Eban proposed that the Middle East be settled with "open frontiers." He said he hoped for civil airlines and railways routed between Arab and Israeli cities, in addition to the "coordinated development of ports." "If a boundary is free in both directions," he explained, "the question of boundaries is less acute...
Sexual Xenophobia. Peyret is quick to explain that he wants nothing like the pimp-controlled houses of yore. Civil servants would run them. For the girls, it would be a job, not a way of life -or a home; the girls would not live in the houses. "The main thing," says Peyret, "is that they would be supervised by local or regional health and sanitation authorities...
...problems in recruiting supervisors. As one indignant woman pointed out to Peyret, "Can you imagine a man hugging his children, embracing his wife and then saying to her, 'Darling, I must be off to my bordello'?" Peyret's retort: "I see no incompatibility between such a civil servant's job and his personal life. A doctor sees a lot of naked women but that doesn't mean he rapes any of them." Peyret should know. He has been a country doctor for 20 years...
...isolation of labor leaders from many of their own members is a ticking time bomb. "The '70s will be far more turbulent than the '60s," predicts Columbia Economist Eli Ginzberg, chairman of the National Manpower Committee. A major source of turbulence will be the civil service employees' rising drive for organization. There will be more disruptive strikes by teachers, police, garbage collectors, hospital workers and other public employees. Unless the unions form a coalition with minority groups like the blacks, who have their own insistent demands on squeezed municipal and federal budgets, those two forces are likely to conflict even...
...famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read and write and think politically, he has set events in motion that end in a blaze of atrocity and civil...