Word: apparat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General Strategy. Some form new splinter groups, others in their disillusion are drifting toward the Socialists, still others try to reverse the "democratic" trend within the party apparat. The Communists are still a great potential danger in Western Europe, particularly since the bourgeois parties have no general strategy on how to cope with them. Their role in Western Europe depends on the viability of the Western alliance, led by the Carter Administration. European leaders are confident that if "we" -the alliance-can lick our economic problems and the social tensions that come with them, then the Communist problem will solve...
...clear now to thoughtful members of the literary apparat that a critic who praises an Iron Curtain writer does so at considerable risk to his reputation as a subtle fellow. Some variant of the skepticism now being directed at Solzhenitsyn is sure to tar the enthusiast. "A great soul, certainly," it will be said, "with great lumps on his head from those rubber truncheons, but a great writer ... ?" The message is stern: under an oppressive state, all artists may be persecuted, but not all those persecuted are artists...