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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...isolation could be seen as a completely apolitical piece, although I don't see it that way. I know it would be very easy to see it that way. However, the use of it is a whole other question and you take Endgame and you put it in the context of men being forced behind walls by other men and it takes on the most incredible anti-establishment ramifications that are imaginable. It's an important thing-how you see what you do puts it into a political...
...context of the Corporation debate today will be surprisingly unrelated to much of the discussion which has taken place in the rest of the University community...
Personal Obsessions. Despite such familiar dystopian details, Intensive Care has little in common with the average science-fiction novel, far more with social-commentary-as-critique such as Orwell's 1984 and Butler's Erewhon. It is rich in cultural context, metaphor and literary allusions. Like old European nursery rhymes, Miss Frame's dialogue disguises underlying horror with a lilting surface. Characters compulsively chase their dreams back to the nightmare garden where Miss Frame magically transforms personal obsessions into her climactic vision of general apocalypse...
What I intended to point out is that Stalinism-or at least that aspect of institutional Stalinism which remains distinct from the personality of the man himself-cannot be divorced from its historical context. Suppression of the Kronstad? revolt followed an invasion of the Soviet Union by 14 nations. In view of Russia's own starvation and impoverishment, the need for the Soviet Communists to treat international revolution in terms of the national interest" became a great deal more urgent. And the remarkable threats which Japan and the Nazis posed to Soviet national security-in combination with Stalin...
...Freshman barricade of the ROTC building last Tuesday night, after the strike vote, was the first indication that our struggle this spring may really have an effect on ending the war and racism in this country. In the context of the comment by one of the SDS attackers that "If we fight the students, the movement is dead." it may be that the notions of "revolution" have finally come of political age and have redized (as: SDS did long ago) that the name of the game is taif...