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Solzhenitsyn also became aware at that time of alternatives to Communism. From an Estonian lawyer he heard about the democracy that was finally crushed by the Soviets in 1944. "I had never before dreamed that I would become interested in Estonia or bourgeois democracy," he writes. "It was not clear...
BERTOLUCCI REMOVED the psychological insight from Dostoevsky's story, using an actor whose face reveals nothing and attempting a political statement contrary to his romantic nature. This has been a major problem in Bertolucci's other adaptations. Before the Revolution (1963) covered over Stendahl's psychological crystallization with broadbrush, romantic...
Rising Chorus. As at the start of the Cultural Revolution, the new campaign has been accompanied by a rising chorus of charges against ideological backsliding. Examinations in schools were criticized for being revisionist and favoring the children of cadres and former bourgeois. One radio broadcast from Hunan charged that "class...
No matter that he's a thief; for society, as Lelouch sees it, is but a grand game of cops and robbers anyway. Simon merely plays the game with society rather than within it. When Francoise asks him how he came by such a profession, he shrugs, "I come by...
One more observation. It seems to me that part of the bad feeling in the department is due to the fact that the radicals have decided that politeness is a bourgeois affection. Indeed, the reason I was finally moved to write this letter was the constant suggestion that anyone who...