Word: benightedness
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For those making history, however, the action is not always attractive. Many ruble-bound Russians, faced with hyperinflation, must sell prized possessions in order to feed their families. Some are even beginning to look back on their benighted communist past with a bitter nostalgia. A young Russian engineer, now unemployed...
THE SOUTHERN TIER. The government of Romania looks to many critics like a continuation of communism without Nicolae Ceausescu, the dictator executed in 1989. Not much has changed for the better in this benighted land. The government has passed some privatization laws, but quasi-communists within the ruling National Salvation...
If Haiti were ruled by communist dictators rather than military tyrants whose only ideology is power, the multitudes who have set sail from that downtrodden country in a desperate bid for freedom in the past month might well have found refuge in the U.S. Instead, those who dared the perilous...
If geography is destiny, the fate of France would assuredly seem blessed. A temperate climate and gentle, well-watered terrain have contrived down the ages to produce a civilization sans pareil. It is a culture abrim with connoisseurs of the good life and nature's bounty. Charles de Gaulle, father...
To take down or deface political posters is an offense against freedom of speech and hence unacceptable, especially on a campus dedicated to the exchange of ideas. It is like preventing speakers from being heard by drowning them out; they have the right to express their opinion, however unpalatable it...