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Marxism." By any name, it is spreading through the Soviet orbit and causing considerable ferment. Czech economists have openly attacked the Marxist economic system, and Czech President Antonin Novotny recently stressed the necessity of "material incentives" for the workers. Even more important for its potential effect on the Communist world, the new way of thinking has given encouragement to the long-suffering consumers of the Soviet bloc, who have begun to sound off loudly about the inefficiencies of a system that provides them with so few comforts...
...than recollections of first cigarettes, however, is Tom's memory of Ellen, the girl next door, whom he loves without reward. She speaks to him "across too great a distance, too soft a silence, ... a vault filled with confusion... and swelling with love for one who merely receives: the ferment of the love-going of a one-way street...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened in Prague recently, its title was changed to Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka? The switch was significant. Not only did it mark Czech officialdom's resurrection of Kafka from the Communist limbo of "degenerate individualism," but it also reflected the intellectual ferment behind the Iron Curtain that made Kafka's redemption possible...
...speech at Brandeis on problems facing European and American universities, Conant stressed that there is a "ferment in higher education in Europe and the United States." He said institutions on both sides of the Atlantic face the demand to expand facilities, the increasing need for highly trained individuals, and the problem of identifying and educating all the potential talent available...
Despite the heat and squalor, Mogadishu is a center of political and intellectual ferment. Politicians representing one or another of Somalia's ten parties argue vociferously in gritty coffee shops -a rare sight in a New Africa that is moving steadily toward one-party government systems. There is spirited debate in Parliament, and although the commonest sound on the streets is still the beggar's cry for "Baksheesh!," there is plenty of free and strident speech to counterpoint...