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Scope of Evil. After a few weeks in Lubyanka, the seeds of doubt had been planted in the mind of the fervent young Marxist. But it was only after he was transferred from Lubyanka to another Moscow prison, Butyrki, that Solzhenitsyn began to perceive the scope of the evil that had befallen his country. In Butyrki, he met the first contingent of Russian soldiers and civilians who had been captured by the Germans during the war. These people were now being repatriated?straight into Stalin's prisons and camps. Nearly 2 million of the 5.7 million prisoners...
...showing through in lines like these, as they never do when he echoes Moravia's political sentiments in The Conformist. Last Tango in Paris is pure Bertolucci, written without a source, and it too gives us a sense of death. But in that film there was a fervent impression of life set apart from a dying culture outside. Partner gives no importance to life at all. Stefania Sandrelli and Tina Amount, the two women in the film, are never treated as people by Bertolucci. The women seem glossed over as insignificant in this film, rather than abused as in Last...
...letter to Bowen, ACORN said the plant's sulfur dioxide emissions will harm the crops of farmers near the proposed plant. "It is our fervent hope that Princeton is not solely interested in obtaining profits from its investments," the letter said...
...game is to make optimistic statements of near-normalcy in the White House and the nation, to print and broadcast them out of a sense of journalistic fairness, and then for some people, out of political loyalty and the fervent hope that believing will be father to fact, to act as if they believe them...
...sellout luncheon for 3,500 in Cobo Hall the next day, Young received fervent promises of support from Henry Ford II and United Automobile Workers President Leonard Woodcock. The festivities culminated in an inaugural ball Friday night in the flower-festooned hall, where more than 8,000 people danced the night away...