Word: enlightenment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedicated Communist and patriot, who believes in Marxism-Leninism and its vision of the future.* When he set about writing Let History Judge, Medvedev was motivated neither by disillusionment with the Bolshevik experiment nor by a desire to discredit the present regime. What he wanted, instead, was to enlighten fellow Soviet Communists about 50 years of their own history and thereby keep the study of "that prolonged disease known as 'the cult of personality' " from being monopolized by bourgeois historians and anti-Communist propagandists. "It is Communists," he writes, "who should be the strictest judges of their...
...weeks ago I received a letter from one of our graduate students. In its paragraph he deplored our Federal Administration's actions in Indochina and applauded his faculty's decision to enlighten academic obligations for those compelled by conscience to devote their time to war activity. It is hard to quarrel with this. But then he went on, and I quote: "Two important members of the Administration... are presently on leave from the faculty. I respectfully suggest that the Faculty immediately and publicly sever all the connections which these men have with Harvard. The fact the faculty contains many including...
...weeks ago I received a letter from one of our graduate students. In its paragraph he deplored our Federal Administration's actions in Indochina and applauded his faculty's decision to enlighten academic obligations for those compelled by conscience to devote their time to war activity. It is hard to quarrel with this. But then he went on, and I quote: "Two important members of the Administration. . . are presently on leave from the faculty. I respectfully suggest that the Faculty immediately and publicly sever all the connections which these men have with Harvard. The fact the faculty contains many including...
...what it is worth, however, we now have the number of the politically motivated murderers within our midst-and geniticists are now beginning to enlighten us about plain old pathological murderers. But what about the drug murderers? How much do we know about them? At this point not much...