Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time since Robert Kennedy's assassination, the surviving Kennedy brother returned to his desk in the back row of the Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure...
...bill passed by an overwhelming 70 to 17. Aimed chiefly at helping the states enforce their own firearms-control laws by severely restricting the mailorder traffic in rifles, shotguns and ammunition, the law would make it impossible to order long guns-as did Lee Harvey Oswald-from an out-of-state gun mail-order house. Even within his own state, the buyer who orders a gun by mail will have to wait at least one week before the dealer ships the weapon. Similarly, when the gun buyer goes to an adjoining state to purchase a gun over the counter...
...self-defense. (Solzhenitsyn's own wife, Natalya, divorced him at his urging while he was in prison. She remarried and bore two children, but after his release she divorced her second husband and rejoined him in his Siberian exile.) The book's anger never falters, but there is control as well: Solzhenitsyn sees these characters with a cold and merciless clarity that lets each one burn in his own flame...
...even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing but are also typical of other attitudes that pervade his work and his life: he is profoundly attached to all things traditionally Russian, is indeed a patriot of an old-fashioned kind, an instinctive Slavophile who distrusts all things Western...
...last year, the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers assembled in Moscow to hymn the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The party hacks were in full control, and neither Solzhenitsyn nor any other dissenter was permitted to mount the rostrum. So Solzhenitsyn put his protest in the form of a letter to the congress that was circulated privately among the delegates and soon dominated all the corridor discussion. It has become the credo of dissenters not only in Russia but in Eastern Europe as well. Excerpts...