Word: fatherland
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...that vigilance would henceforth be exercised to "sweep away" Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other "wretched renegades." The author's banned novels, Cancer Ward and The First Circle, which were bestsellers in the West, were excoriated by Pravda as "lampoons on the Soviet Union which blacken the achievements of our fatherland and the dignity of the Soviet people...
...mill sensuality." It is missing. Her performance opening night was nervous and somewhat ferced. She seemed almost embarrassed at being on stage, rushing at moments to get through with it. Gary Halcott is convincing as an everyman Andreas Kragler. He is the confused warrior come home to an ungrateful Fatherland, wanting only to sleep with his old honey, sinking to revolutionary despair when be can't have her. Through the play he manages to look progressively more tired and more bored...
...natural resources for the profit which they might yield. Man and nature both have a higher potential than to be oppressed for quick dollars. The ecology campaign must strike right at the heart of the industrialized insensitive society, where it destroys natural beauty for a capitalist or a socialist fatherland...
...there which cannot be explained," he said. "Before I went there I was afraid. But the moment you are there all fear vanishes automatically, and there comes over you a feeling of clation which you cannot explain. It's not an accident that this country has become the spiritual fatherland of half of humanity. There is something in the climate there, in the sky in the very air. I think Nietzche said it: that only Israel could have produced prophets...
...lengths to which the little Balkan dictatorship will not go to emulate its big brother to the east. Because of industrial and agricultural shortfalls. Communist Party Boss Enver Hoxha has decreed "a new and big fire for a chain of revolutionary undertakings in all corners of the fatherland" -in short, a "Great Leap Forward...