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...mission. This he perceives as a memorial to the dead of the archipelago. But his books are also Solzhenitsyn's gift to the living. Mindful of George Orwell's dictum that he "who controls the past controls the future," he has already wrested Soviet history from those bent on obliterating it and restored it to his people. In the future, he may also succeed in quickening the conscience of both the oppressed and the oppressors in his unhappy country. For, as he wrote in his Nobel Prize lecture, "The persuasiveness of a true work of art is completely irrefutable...
...recent editorial in the Spectator read like this: "Until those almost incredible arrests brought the reality of the new drug laws home to campus, the law was seen by most students as an irrelevant, unthreatening paper decree.... Last year, politicians bent on high offices played on public fears to produce 'the toughest drug law in the country'. Now for the first time that toughness--or rather, that brutality--is being felt on Morningside Heights...
...blacks. Finally, another young man whom she has helped to raise, and who she believes is the great leader her people expect to rise among them, is killed after a confrontation at a drinking fountain for whites only. At the film's moving climax it is Miss Jane, bent under the burdens of age and history, who drinks from...
...Coal Health and Safety Act to force improvements in mine conditions. These were vividly recalled by Arnold Miller, president of the United Mine Workers, in a recent speech. Old miners, said Miller, "labored their lives away in the bowels of the earth and reaped as their reward a back bent like a stunted tree and lungs that did not work because they were full of coal dust." The law has started to change the situation, but it also has sharply increased operating costs and caused some 500 marginal mines to close. Productivity per worker plunged from a 1969 high...
...feeling of despair is only heightened by the fact that the Japanese have more money than they have ever had. Year-end bonuses total $21.4 billion. With the expectation that this may be their last year of prosperity, most Japanese seem bent on spending as much of it as they...