Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After The Chairs and other early plays were first performed in Paris, it was decided by certain leftist critics that Ionesco had talent. Soon, one high official of the French Communist Party went and spoke to Ionesco. 'Look,' he said, 'you certainly are gifted. But you lack a direction--you need to deliver a message. The Party will give you the right direction...
...Duras and others live.) In his book, Present Past, Past Present (1971) he notes: "We (in France) have a liberal press and a censorship by a literally authoritative opposition"--an opposition which until a few years ago was exemplified by the overwhelming majority of French publishing houses under intolerant Communist control. The "oppressed" writers, consequently, were more often than not afraid of being denounced in Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and other leftist publications. Or they feared that their works might be banned by the Ministry of Culture. The heretics uncomfortably remained under the curfews of silence...
Gaetan: You have suggested several times that the great voices of the dissident authors of Communist countries have taken us out of our torpor. Do you think that the spiritual strength of their testimony can at least retard the expansion of the Soviet system? ...Are you optimistic about the future of the spirit of freedom...
...more to heighten the efficiency of individual education than the advocates of this oppressive new program are willing to concede. There is not an absolute truth, nor is there only one way to educate students. Fanatical Marxists say the core simply perpetuates bourgeois ideology, committed libertarians will scream Communist Indoctrination. Through the mist of this type of critical extremism, one can discern an interesting point. It would be better for all if a less rigid core was devised and if the University did not attempt such a drastic confiscation of freedom of choice for its students...
Hundley left Brooklyn to win a Bronze Star during World War II and took his law degree from Fordham in 1950. After a year with a Wall Street firm, he joined the Justice Department, later prosecuting Smith Act cases for the Internal Security Division. Of his Communist-hunting days, Hundley is rueful: "I try to skip over that period." In 1967 Hundley left for private practice, gradually building a solid six-figure income in partnership with former Justice Department Colleague Plato Cacheris. Their old boss, onetime Criminal Division Chief Henry Petersen, who was badly tarnished by Watergate, shares office space...