Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What distinguishes the mentality of the Moscow intelligentsia more than anything else is its greed for awards, prizes, titles: "honored personage . . . laureate . . ." In shameful pursuit of all this, people stand to attention, break off all unapproved friendships, obey all wishes of their superiors and condemn any of their colleagues if the party orders them to do so. I think even the sorriest pre-revolutionary intellectual would refuse to shake hands with the most illustrious one in Moscow today...
Although Chad's 52% Muslim majority, as well as its 5% Christian minority, condemn the pagan rites, no effective opposition has been organized. A secret meeting of Chad's church leaders was held in August. So far, they have not dared to speak out for fear of reprisal: the 130 assassinated churchmen were apparently killed for preaching against the rites. Until the dictatorial Tombalbaye can be persuaded to soften his drastic decree, many Chadians will have to choose between possible death from undergoing Yondo and certain death for resisting...
Iran's universities, in fact, seem to operate on just the kind of system Harvard professors like to condemn in theory. They are under the tight control of the dictatorship; dissident professors are fired and sometimes tortured until they renounce their political views. Students are forced to study what the Shah considers his great achievements as a ruler, and their protests usually result in arrests or injuries...
...civil rights if thousands of farmworkers." Such characterizations have a long history in anti-labor rhetoric. It would be well for those who advance such slogans to be forced to reply more on the available data and less on the sort of partial and inaccurate statements they purport to condemn...
...stable where he works on weekends, Alan is sexually aroused by a pert, enticing co-employee (Roberta Maxwell). In a nude scene that precedes the play's climax, they try to make love but Alan falters. He feels that the eyes of his gods watch and condemn him. Then the horror begins...