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Thomas Hobbes said citizenship is based on the people's abstract consent to the authority of the state. But his theoretical notion can not capture the real emotion of submitting to the sovereignty of a new country. Although many who accept United States citizenship look upon the formal procedure with apathy, the social contract it symbolizes is a source of great enthusiasm and pride, an opportunity to begin a new life in a still very new world...
Czechoslovakia's Communist government responded to the publication of this book in Europe last year by revoking the citizenship of Author Milan Kundera. The act was largely symbolic and gratuitous; Kundera had left his repressive homeland and settled in France in 1975. In their own thuggish way, though, the Czech authorities showed they were onto something when they bridled at Kundera's latest work. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one. Kundera not only raps the iron knuckles of totalitarianism; he coolly unravels the velvet glove of liberalism...
...case of Feodor Fedorenko [Oct. 27], the Ukrainian-born immigrant now accused of being a Nazi criminal: I cannot comprehend why the Justice Department is seeking the revocation of his citizenship when more than 78,000 Cubans have immigrated to America and we have become responsible for their welfare...
...proper note of ambiguity. "I don't like myself in that role," he insisted, though he has already rehearsed it in The Candidate (1972). But he did add, "I have a right to speak out on the issues. Being an actor isn't synonymous with giving up citizenship papers." Beatty too is already sounding like a politician. His response to queries about a possible candidacy: "No comment...
...Cambridge's Rindge and Latin School, a block from the Yard on Broadway, newly arrived immigrants attend classes every night so they can learn to speak English. Once they've got the language down, they take citizenship class, learn the Pledge of Allegiance, study the American system of government. If 2 1/2 goes through, the schools will close at 2:30 in the afternoon and there won't be any more programs for adults, not even the immigrants. Which might be all right. You'd have to think twice about immigrating to a country that did something like that...