Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn's outburst was sparked by charges in Pravda that his new book was "slanderous," "counterrevolutionary" and "treasonable." In support of these contentions, other Russian newspapers weighed in with quotations allegedly drawn from the Russian text of Gulag, which was published in Paris last month. All the Soviet accounts of his book, Solzhenitsyn said, were distortions designed to conceal its real content from Russian readers. Thus do Soviet leaders show, he declared, "how tenaciously they cling to the bloody past and how they want to drag it with them, like a sealed up sack, into the future...
...decision; he wanted to avoid bothering the President with matters, such as allocation details, that the energy chief could decide himself. In fact, Simon has easy access to Nixon; they have had at least 15 meetings in the past month and have almost daily telephone chats. But Nixon seems content to leave energy policy to his driving subordinate, who has made nearly all his announcements on his own authority...
...behind a pretty bankrupt lot," said an aide. "All they will have left is the building and the furniture." Technically Faulkner retains his Unionist membership, but 17 Unionist members of the Assembly have remained loyal to him, and he could form his own party. For the moment, he seems content to remain a Unionist in name and Chief Executive in fact...
...volume "outline of the whole of human knowledge" that serves as a framework and guide for the material in the other 29 volumes. The concept of the Propaedia stems from the Greek words that constitute the term encyclopaedia: the whole circle (or complete system) of learning. Adler describes the content of the Propaedia as a "circle of learning" that is divided, pie-like, into ten major segments: matter and energy, the earth, life on earth, human life, human society, art, technology, religion, the history of mankind, the branches of knowledge. Within the ten segments there are 42 divisions, 189 sections...
...content of the shows has not yet been fully defined, Galbraith said, but themes covered will include the development of capitalist and socialist societies in this century, imperialism and colonialism, Keynesian economics, and what Galbraith called the "uncertainty of the twentieth century...