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DISCUSSION OF THE political aspects of Solzhenitsyn's fiction is not a bad thing in itself, and any attempts at uncovering and commenting upon the nature of neo-Stalinist literary controls is interesting for its own sake. Solzhenitsyn must be discussed in his political context, for he is an intensely Russian writer. His medium is a difficult vernacular that is uncertainly translated, and his concerns are deeply nationalistic. By the choice of his subject matter he became a political writer, and the politics on which he writes are clearly very sensitive to his government. But a concern with the writer...
Regarding race relations, Mr. Shapiro merely cites a few unauthenticated incidents of alleged racism which, even if they were true, would have no significance in the total context of the existing multiraciality...
...counterattack, delivering to all Synod pastors a 35-page document that declared the fact-finding committee's report "unfair," "unreliable," "untrue," "unscriptural" and "un-Lutheran." Tietjen quoted several faculty members who enumerated the ways in which they felt they had been misunderstood or quoted out of context by the fact-finding committee. While defending the use of modern methods of biblical criticism (rejected by Preus), the faculty argued that their cautious use of these methods at Concordia does not jeopardize basic Lutheran beliefs. What is in jeopardy, Tietjen believes, is the very existence of the church: "I fear that...
...woman Nazi hunter, and the bestiality a three-page pictorial of animals copulating. The last is the only thing in the magazine that shows any sign of originality. Subtitled "Our Friends in the Animal Kingdom Finally Get It On," the pictorial is actually funny. But in the context of the rest of Our it reads like self-parody. There are pictures of walfuses, rhinos, zebras, tortoises and hippopatomuses getting laid. It looks more like a selection from Mad magazine than from what the PR men call Playboy's new publication with an international flavor...
Nwafor concludes his memorandum by saying "the black experience should be considered in the context of a totality. It should not be treated in isolation and should indeed have meaning for all students at Harvard and it must not occupy a precarious, marginal existence on the outermost fringes of the University's intellectual life...