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Antonin Liehm, professor at the City University of New York, last night showed an audience of about 130 people in Carpenter Center two Czechoslovokian films which he said were attempts to "crush the iceberg" of socialist realism...
...evokes the fire and flood of up-tempo gospel numbers. But she is no blues singer. When neither love nor liquor could quench Bessie's misery, her harsh sounds of loneliness could bring an entire audience to tears. Bessie sang from pain, Linda sings from joy. She cannot crush her optimism. Hopkins ain't Bessie, it is true. She is, nonetheless, a champ...
...Reed's own experience, his observation of the Paterson silk strike in 1913, that radicalized him. He saw the lengths to which state and capital would go to crush any expression of solidarity among the workers. The lesson was reiterated a year later for Reed by the state militia's massacre of striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado...
...Giff plods on, astonished by the crush of lives and goods that society has demonically blistered out of nature. Professional athletics, street crime, and violent sexism are worldly dimensions that Gifford has never had to contemplate from the blessed security of his provincial office. Hough's urban world is savage but somehow not believable. When the cops see a large black man bullying a white boy, O'Rourke hustles the outraged Gifford on. "Believe it or not," he explains, "they wouldn't want us to interfere. Not even the kid." Gifford responds to this fractured and isolationist image by blindly...
...instigator of the coup was the Timor Democratic Union (U.D.T.) which had always advocated a gradual approach to independence and a continuing association with Portugal. One possible explanation for the U.D.T.'s action was that it had joined forces with another independence party, Fretelin, to crush a third party that advocates eventual union with Indonesia...