Word: dissented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent eleven years in prison, slave-labor camps and exile. His books, as one of the establishment's tame writers once charged, are "more dangerous for us than those of Pasternak. Pasternak was a man detached from life, while Solzhenitsyn is combative, determined." In a time of unprecedented dissent in Russia, Solzhenitsyn stands at the moral center of the movement to cleanse Russia of the spirit of Stalinism. His role is symbolic, since he himself is not an activist but a loner, aloof except where his own works are involved. But he understands as well as any of Russia...
...Brutal Showdown. Recently, dissenters in Russia have sounded the alarm that a return to mass terror is at hand. So far, however, the leaders have confined themselves to selective terror in an attempt to silence the most outspoken writers and intellectuals and to curb their influence on public opinion. Still, the regime finds itself in an impossible dilemma. Without a return to mass police terror, new voices will be raised in dissent as soon as others are stilled. But the regime knows too that the cost of restoring Stalin's terror would be incalculably high. It would reverse the effect...
Essentially, Freedom. That book, and all of Solzhenitsyn's life and work, place him at the passionate focal point of the major issue that inflames dissent and frightens the men in the Kremlin today. The issue is Stalinism, the "past that is clawing to pieces our present days," as Soviet Writer Lydia Chukovskaya expressed it in a letter which circulated underground earlier this year...
...unfortunate land. An austere, almost monastic man who once taught economics, he has shunned publicity and raised few monuments to himself. Yet he built a tightly run, corporate state modeled closely on Mussolini's Italy, and his secret police have harshly repressed most discussion and all dissent. He has ruled longer than any other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood clot on his brain. Last week he lay near death after a massive stroke that left...
...clerical monotony, he says "Stop the wars, now." Cast members in the aisles shout back in unison, "Stop the wars, now!" He repeats the phrase half a dozen times as the audience response grows in force. Then he switches to "Freedom-now," and on through a litany of total dissent: "Ban the bombs," "Abolish police," "Change the world," "Abolish the state." This goes on far too long. The Living Theater persistently confuses duration with intensity. As the shouted responses turn the house into a kind of cathedral of the absurd, the cast moves onstage, forms a circle, and utters...