Word: know
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gori's 15,000 citizens had swarmed into the town square, which is dominated by what may be one of the last statues of Stalin still standing in the Soviet Union. There they feasted, listened to speeches in praise of their departed kinsman and toasted his memory. "You know how it is," a Red Army veteran said. "When someone is alive, he's great. When he dies, they say he never existed. Stalin existed. If he hadn't, there would be Germans in Moscow today...
...curriculum. "How many blacks," he asks, "have worries about taxes, estates or corporation law?" David Mitchell, a black at Columbia Law School, disagrees. He argues that courses in corporate and tax law are "as relevant to black businessmen as to white." Moreover, he declares, "you can't know landlord-tenant problems without understanding the principles of property...
...company with most of the new sociologists, Horowitz is bent on redefining the traditionally accepted symptoms of social deviance: divorce, homosexuality, crime and revolution. In a white-dominated society, for that matter, a man can be labeled deviant just because he is black. "But how do we know what is and is not deviant?" asks Horowitz. "When 41% of all marriages end in divorce, for example, must we still regard divorce as a social problem?" Instead of asking the question, "What went wrong with the marriage?" he suggests, the sociologist should ask: "What's wrong with the institution...
Charles W. Wheatley, 34, Princeton, Princeton, N.J.: "For me, the students are the only really viable political entity . . . Older faculty are ineducable when it comes to the revolution, the movement. They won't be shot, you know; a little island will be found for them some place...
...innovations like these, says Boulez, that make him still contemporary today. Boulez should know. As a leading avant-garde composer himself (Pli selon pli), he is the outstanding exponent of Debussyean principles. "My performances of Debussy are not just historical reconsiderations," he says. "The only masterpieces that are vital today are the ones we can take a modern point of view about. Who can tell you about the reality of Debussy at the turn of the century? Nobody...