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...Victorian era from any knowledge of sex or aggression. Young people in our own society are less sheltered in these respects on the whole, but they are often sheltered by our relative affluence, efficiency, and cooperativeness from what it is like to live in a world of peasant distrust, misery, and fatalism. And yet Volunteers do learn. Many in the Colombia group had begun with a somewhat romantic belief that poor people, such as peasants, were somehow nobler and better than middle-class Americans, while others had begun with the more characteristic almost unconscious pride in their Americanism. Experience seemed...
...Vietnam is poisoning the atmosphere," Mendelsohn said. "It not only skews the directions in which government money goes, but, even more important, it also has created a tremendous distrust among scientists receiving grants from the government. They are now much more touchy about government supervision than they used...
...outlook has perhaps been altered more by industrialization and urbanization than by any methodical attempt to reshape his consciousness. Nonetheless, he is basically what he has been for centuries. He retains much of his shirokaya dusha, or boundless generosity, his emotionalism, his stolid endurance, his hatred and distrust of authority and, at the same time, his deep need for it. Despite widespread atheism and official disapproval, religion is proving increasingly difficult to root out. The Baptists, who appeal to the Russian soul with their fundamentalism, are growing steadily, now have more than 3,000,000 members. Even if its inhabitants...
...both he and Brezhnev served time in Stalin's ca dres), is more or less looked to by the new intelligentsia as their best hope for further relaxation of party control. Suslov is more of a hardliner, while Podgorny has the strongest liberal tendencies of all. All four distrust the ambitious younger leaders, at whom they recently struck a blow by removing Aleksandr Shelepin, 49, an ex-head of the secret police, from his job as Deputy Premier and Party Secretary and demoting him to an obscure and less powerful post as head of the Russian trade unions. Shelepin...
Royster has the conservative's ingrained distrust of people with neat solutions. "The fantasy that for every problem there exists a political solution is responsible for the drift toward paternalistic government. In its extreme form, it helps account for that phenomenon of the 20th century, the totalitarian state." While poverty clearly exists in the U.S., he feels that it has been grossly exaggerated. "Believe me," he writes, "in the slums you will also find the tempest-tossed from other lands to whom this 'poverty' is something they fled to from something far worse...