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...hesitation. . . the Party held the truth and the keys to the future." When he marches with militant workers, he suddenly feels the weight of phylacteries in his knapsack, but his revolutionary fervor is seldom leavened by thought. It takes a phosphorescent, spectral figure to rekindle any moral sense. David Aboulesia, who mysteriously appears whenever pain grows too intense to bear, warns him, "If you believe you must forsake your brothers in order to save mankind, you will save nobody, you will not even save yourself." It is a bitter prediction: Kossover's return to faith is tragically late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Testament: Sounds of Silence | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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