Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double-barreled concert was to have been the feature attraction of a daylong festival celebrating the 28th anniversary of East Germany's birth as a Communist state. In one corner of East Berlin's huge Alexanderplatz, a Western-style rock group, Express Berlin, was performing before several hundred rapt young people. At the opposite end of the square, a Russian military band tootling patriotic marches competed unsuccessfully for the crowd's attention. Suddenly, the cacophony erupted into violence...
What pleases Slava most is that he has found the chance to express that passion. "At home," he says, "Ministry of Culture make every plan for me. They decide countries and programs I play. Here I am absolutely free. For artists, that is an incredible feeling. At first, I always think I have forget to ask permission from somebody. It is like a sickness...
...Western newsmen. Referring to the officials who pass upon art in the Soviet Union, Slava asked: "Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word? . . . Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he In knows, what he has personally thought about, experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated...
...consider any prejudice to be too much in an environment boasting intelligence. The right for someone to love who they choose and to fuck who they are attracted to seems utterly obvious to me. My right to share same-sex love is as obvious as my parents' right to express their heterosexuality. Most of the homosexuals here sense the obviousness of that right. There are only a few fools. It is the heterosexuals, who have nothing at stake, that fail to give evaluation of the right much thought; they offer prejudice instead, or, nearly as unfortunate, indifference...
...legitimacy to the oustide world. However, the overwhelming victory that Vorster's Afrikaner Nationalist Party expects to score in the election can only reflect the intensifying reactionary mood within the small minority white population that controls power in South Africa, while the disenfranchised black majority will be unable to express its opposition to the Pretoria regime. Those who have beentouched and alarmed by the Biko case should be under no illusion that the conditions dramatized by his detention and unexplained death will end until the Vorster government is stripped of all its political and military control and a black majority...