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...concept of education illustrated by student activities supporting civil rights. Students' recent social and political involvement has altered the traditional view of education as a preparation for life -- students are now assuming a more meaningful role in society and are no longer content to live in a cocoon. It is recognized that it is impossible to know and fulfill the responsibilities of freedom without first being allowed to make choices and exercise that freedom. Students are expected to make value judgments about the outside community and to affect it through responsible action. It is incongruous that they should not make...
...Congratulations on the brilliant exposé on contemporary Communism [Nov. 10]. However, the total effect may lead your readers to believe that the Soviet Union is a diminishing threat to the security of the U.S. This is not so; the abandonment of the cocoon of the Marxist mystique of historical inevitability exposes only the giant moth of Russian nationalistic aggression-cunningly Stalinist. This contention is substantiated by a report in your NATION section. The identical "liberalized" Soviets who now espouse Libermanism and plan to triple their output of autos have secretly developed the Fractional Orbital Bombing System designed to thwart...
Like a giant moth attempting to break out of a cocoon, Soviet Communism is trying to rid itself of a doctrine conceived a century ago in a far different world. Though Lenin had to revise Marx to fit the Russian pattern, it was Nikita Khrushchev who launched the official decline of the doctrine. Faced with the necessity of solving countless economic and social problems, today's Soviet planners find such Marxist theories as class revolution and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" just plain nuisances. The Chinese are right, of course: the Russians are revisionists. In a very real sense...
...World. Nicky was the Czar, but the official classes and the police governed. At the center of the administrative web, Nicky and Alicky lived in a cocoon of preposterous protocol unchanged in a single item since Catherine the Great. Of pogroms and general misery, Nicky knew only what he was told. Of the good features of Russian life-the upsurge of national genius in fiction, poetry and science-he knew little, and what little he did know he did not like. His sole success was in contriving some sort of private life for himself and Alicky. At Czarskoe Selo...
...into theirs. The blacks feel that Asians do not open their businesses to capable young Africans, and that they invest their money abroad or send it to relatives. In Kenya, the KANU party of President Kenyatta has scolded the Asians for living out their lives in "a communal cocoon, having only the most superficial contact with their fellow inhabitants." A barefooted Tanzanian farmer, cheering anti-Asian demonstrations earlier this month, expressed the deep-seated African feeling that the Asians are taking what should belong to the Africans. Said he: "There are too many ticks on the lion's belly...