Word: communisme
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People were filled with fear--of nuclear war, of aggressive Communism, of spies, of enemy hordes in Korea, of litigation (there are incredible stories about how Warren and others in the AEC kept secrets in part for this reason), and of the raging politics of McCarthyism...
Herbert is a rare find in 1998: he is old andwise, having lived through the turmoil of EasternEurope under communism, yet he is a storytellerpoet more concerned with the forests than withpeople. He does not run from his own historicalcontext; but he, in a move that will perhaps beincreasingly repeated, bravely attends to himselfand many of the old cares of poetry in their turn.He certainly does not flee his time, carelesslyrutting in transcendentalism or other naiveaesthetics. In fact, his language and reliance onoblique image is, if anything, a testament to thecomplexities of the present and the wisdom ofcontemporary poetry...
...Vatican has framed this trip as an attempt to bridge the gap between the haves and have-nots in the Americas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. And President Clinton will find that the legendary crusader against communism has some harsh words for capitalism too. In his Ecclesia in America exhortation signed at the weekend, the pope denounced "unbridled consumerism" and a "system (that) considers profits and the law of the market as its only parameters." But to a U.S. President who considers the humming economy his greatest achievement, curbing consumerism will hardly seem like a good idea...
According to O'Leary, top sellers include Phony Communism is Dead... Long Live Real Communism, by Bob Avakian, chair of the central committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party...
...After 10 years of work, a Vatican commission released a 14-page report on the Roman Catholic Church and (a) the fall of communism (b) birth control (c) education (d) the Holocaust...