Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allen Ginsberg sounds as though he is trying to rescue himself from his own emptiness. It is a shame when the mind of a man of his caliber becomes confused and resorts to making a mockery of the accomplishments of himself and his peers. The ultimate goal of dissent is change, not destruction. The once sprightly spirit of this "visionary" is dead. Jay E. Newcomb Lafayette...
...administration holding steady at 57%. And for all the acrimony over economic policy, a surprising degree of harmony prevails on foreign affairs and defense. Mitterrand's request for $22 billion in military spending, up 3.6% after inflation over last year's level, passed the Senate without dissent this month. It was the upper chamber's first unanimous vote in 30 years. Nonetheless, it is Mitterrand's handling of the economy and of domestic social policy that will determine France's international strength, its uniquely firm stand on Western defense and, of course, the number...
...Neill is an unsparing realist; he's the one who points out that Reed is an artist, not a politician. Reed ends up defending the individual's right to dissent against the Party's call for unquestioning loyalty, exclaiming that if you purge dissent you purge what's unique in a man, and he's answered by a tremendous explosion that signals a White-army attack. That's a good, absorbing scene, one of a couple in the second half that pit idealist against politician. But they all have that Robert Bolt-Q.E.D. quality. Bolt's latest play...
Half an hour late, Poet Anne Waldman rises to introduce the aging enfant terrible, now 55. She arouses the crowd to nostalgia for dissent with the code language of the antiEstablishment. She describes Ginsberg as a product of "postwar materialist paranoid doldrums." She proclaims, to the audience's laughter, that Howl was "written while Allen was living on unemployment compensation...
...military threats from as far away as Washington, D.C., the Sandinistas must rebuild Nicaragua. They do not follow the approved revolutionary path, killing all the National Guardsmen and forcibly converting the economy so they may plunder it. Instead, the executions are limited, as are the jailings of political opponents; dissent within limits is allowed; some attempt is made to include non-Sandinista elements in the ruling government...