Word: classical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Garden, Colonial Classic...
...fairness to the government, the Church is able to carry on in this manner because the Philippines does not have martial law in the classic sense. There are no tanks or heavy military presence in the streets, except in the seccessionist areas, and only the anonymous political prisoners undergo torture. Instead the government uses more subtle means to curb the Church's criticisms. Marcos's underlings raise the legaliztion of abortion and divorce and the expansion of birth control programs to increase their leverage with a church solidly opposed to such measures. Without ever adopting such issues and further unifying...
...most dazzling run-ups in history, and it underscored the enduring psychological lure of the yellow metal as the most consistently sought-after possession in times of strife and uncertainty. Concludes Sociologist Neil Smelser, author of Theory of Collective Behavior: "The gold rush is a classic case of panic. The people who are dealing in gold are operating under the fantasy that the world economic structure is going to collapse. They are living by the myth hat the only thing that will survive is gold." Harvard Social Psychologist Roger Brown compares the panic to he rush on the gates...
...keeping the Government off the backs of the people, Douglas did not mean the people who run Big Business. He was a classic New Deal liberal. As chairman of the SEC from 1937 to 1939, he responded with a resounding "Hooey!" to stock-market leaders who insisted they could regulate themselves. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939 by President Franklin Roosevelt, Douglas brought with him a thorough knowledge of corporate finance that he later used to shape many little-known but far-reaching decisions affecting the Government's power to regulate the economy...
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia, 1970). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage modern classic...