Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps Solzhenitsyn's boldest and most dangerous assertion concerns a former Red Army general who is anathema to the Soviets. He was Andrei Vlasov, who commanded Russian units in the German army after 1942. Although Solzhenitsyn does not condone Vlasov's wartime defection, he praises him as "one of the most talented" of the Soviet generals who conducted the earlier defense of Moscow...
Trendy Pendulum. How long it will take him to decide to leave Columbo is, therefore, anybody's guess. Falk has characterized the shuffling little detective so completely that his moves are now almost completely predictable, with the kind of sameness that is anathema to an actor of Falk's ability. Falk's contract has three years to run, and those around him do not expect him to remain longer. "I'm not tired of Columbo yet," he says. "But I'm getting close...
...audience who applauds the movie claps for a world which their own situation has rendered irrelevant. It is finally a highly conservative applause. For the message that romanticizes the female rebel, but balks before the women's rebellion, is anathema to any committed feminist. It feeds nothing but a counter-revolutionary fervor, one barren of relevance, one that lowers rather than raises consciousness...
...That is anathema to the Perónist left, which has demanded that the army's internal-security functions be carried out by a popular militia...
Eventually that book became an increasingly intolerable burden to the new leadership of the Communist Party. In the shifts of party policy that followed Khrushchev's downfall, mere mention of any crimes committed in the Stalinist era was anathema. Friends of Solzhenitsyn who tried to defend his subsequent anti-Stalinist books (including The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) were condemned by the official press, and many lost their jobs. Solzhenitsyn himself was ousted from the Soviet Writers Union...