Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...file of a hard-line group sometimes called the Novotný Orphans, in honor of Stalinist ex-Party Boss Antonin Novotný. With some 20 Soviet officers seated on stage, the crowd applauded wildly as Novotný's former foreign minister, Vaclav David, called for "an open fight against antisocialist forces." Meanwhile, outside the hall, some 500 younger Czechoslovaks waited. As the crowd walked out of the door, it was greeted with hoots of "collaborators!" and "shame!" Soon fists were flying. It took several busloads of police, who waded into the crowd with rubber truncheons to restore order...
...farewells, it is usually said, 'Sleep quietly, dear Comrade.' We will not say this," began Grigorenko, glancing down at the visage of his friend. "In the first place, he will not listen to me. He will continue to fight, anyway. In the second place, it is impossible for me without you, Alyosha. You sit inside me, and you will stay there. Therefore, do not sleep, Alyosha! Fight, Alyosha! Burn all the abominable meanness with which they want to keep turning eternally that damned machine against which you fought all your life...
...intellectuals and artists attending Kosterin's funeral, he was the very symbol of uncompromising Leninism that was crushed mercilessly in Stalin's era-and is now imperiled again. Some brought wreaths bearing ribbons that read, "For his fight against Stalinism" and "From his comrades and friends in the prisons and camps." Grigorenko, an engineer whose libertarian views cost him his army rank in 1964, urged the mourners to work for "the persistent development of genuine Leninist democracy," and scathingly dismissed the current "totalitarianism that hides behind the mask of so-called Soviet democracy" as its antithesis...
...pendulum swings," explains Richard Tuttle. "Pop was with the commercial image. It was a fight against the esoteric thing of abstract expressionism. Now this esoteric thing is coming back." Adds De Maria: "These works are secret-hard to get to. They put commitment back into...
...Cambridge City Council passed a resolution last night in favour of the twohearing proposal. The Council has been waging a fight to delay the Inner Belt ever since it was first suggested...