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...Jewett said he has some reservations about the long-dormant disciplinary body, but he said he does not accept many students' argument that it is an illegitimate body. Students have perennially boycotted the committee since its inception in 1969, charging that it is used to punish political dissent without appeal to a higher body...
When he remarks, for example, that he and his colleagues are "quite exacting and self-critical," is there the faintest suggestion of dissent in the Politburo and perhaps of shuffles soon to come? He teases the Reagan Administration about how it should "deal us yet another propaganda blow, say, by suspending the development of one of your new strategic missiles. And we would respond with the same kind of 'propaganda.' " Is that a veiled offer to scrap the U.S.S.R.'s threatening new multiple-warhead ICBM, the SS-24, in exchange for cancellation of the American...
Although Fowles is an atheist, the "tender sympathy" for the Shakers that underlies A Maggot is not as unlikely as it seems, for the author is drawn to all forms of dissent, whatever the orthodoxy. Although a novelist of established eminence, he chooses to be "unconnected" to conventional literary life: "I don't know other writers or read any literary magazines. I hate reviewing. I don't lecture or give readings. The novel is a print medium, meant to come through the eyes, not the ears. All that readings show you is whether the novelist is a good actor...
...democratic values of free speech and assembly, and it accentuates the anger and frustration felt by all opponents of apartheid. The South African government's contention that it upholds Western values is belied by such actions. A society can never effectively come to terms with its problems by repressing dissent...
...propaganda war. The Kremlin can shape, time and fine-tune a message with precise calibration. The U.S., by contrast, is often a cacophony of voices, all shouting and disagreeing at once. But in the struggle for world opinion, it is that very diversity of viewpoint and freedom of dissent that gives the U.S. its most valuable asset: credibility...