Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eating a meal in a House dining hall here has its points of tension, as does getting the daily mail from the mailbox. Our lives here at Harvard can be very complex. That is undeniable. Yet compared to most of the world's people, we lead easy existences, and we are generally pretty complacent about doing so. An interruption of our habitual activities by an ultimately harmless "shooting" or a draft card can shock us into at least a temporary awareness of our complacency...
...city's Westbury Mall was reduced to a heap of wreckage up to 14 ft. deep. The adjacent Waterford Square apartment complex was flattened. Most of the fatalities occurred at those two sites, as shoppers and residents had no time to flee the storm's assault. Terri-Lynn Frasher, 16, had been taking a shower in her apartment; she was pinned under a sink and vanity when her walls collapsed. Gashed by a broken mirror, she was pulled naked from the building. "I can't even say I lost everything but the clothes on my back," she said wryly from...
...fairyland," says an East Berlin housewife. "Our attitudes are different. We grew up more modest. We missed out on a lot, but we make do. Over there it's all money, money, money. We don't have it." There , is the touch of an inferiority complex as well, and given widespread West German complaints about new burdens, it is perhaps justified. "Maybe it's best not to unify the country," says an East Berlin pensioner. "The West would probably treat us as second-class citizens, like migrant workers...
...straightforward yes or no to reunification is too simple in so complex a constellation. NATO and the Warsaw Pact will have to shed their military dimensions. The European Community will have to define its attitudes toward Eastern Europe. The two Germanys will want to expand the web of existing agreements between them, an interweaving of interests that neither can unravel without harming itself. In years to come, perhaps a German confederation within an expanded European Community may emerge, but in an age of new perceptions, it may not matter what it is called...
...some as-yet-nebulous form of social democracy. The next to be engulfed by the tides of change appears to be Bulgaria; Todor Zhivkov, 78, its longtime, hard-line boss, unexpectedly resigned at week's end. Outlining the urgent need for "restructuring," his successor, Petar Mladenov, said, "This implies complex and far from foreseeable processes. But there is no alternative." In all of what used to be called the Soviet bloc, Zhivkov's departure leaves in power only Nicolae Ceausescu in Rumania and Milos Jakes in Czechoslovakia, both old-style Communist dictators. Their fate? Who knows? Only a few weeks...