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...veteran of World War II and of the 1948 and 1956 Arab-Israeli wars, Amichai spoke about his wartime experiences. He read poems from his new book, Every Fist Was Once An Open Palm With Fingers...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Amichai Speaks at Hillel | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

According to Dixon, Noble faces the same problem confronting all fist-time City Council candidates: everyone's already promised away their No. 1 votes. He says he can't imagine her getting more than 500 or 600 No.1 votes, not nearly enough to win a council seat...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Decision '91: The city's Progressive Council Puts Its Record on the Line | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Those with sharp memories will have noticed two errors in the preceding paragraph: Hill's voice may have sometimes wavered, but she never cried, and Thomas may have thundered with his voice but never with his fist. Even if memory fails to retain these details, how many Americans will accurately retain the essence of the events? Will our memories reflect the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Can Memories Be Trusted? | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...confirmed what I'd often been told: Soviet military officers are no men on horseback, forever overthrowing political authorities. To be sure, pluralism in the Soviet Union brought out the worst in the army. Senior officers grumbled publicly about reform, and some called for the use of an iron fist. Yet when the crunch came, the army and many of its leaders, including the new Minister of Defense, General Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, stayed on the sidelines. Thus the Soviet army still has a chance to find a place in a stable and democratic successor to the communist Soviet Union. If that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Army for a New State | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...bred by this history. Alexei Sergeyev, a political economics professor and a founder of the Communist Initiative Movement, believes that most of his countrymen "don't understand anything in politics." They tend to equate the noise and conflict of a multiparty system with anarchy, which arose whenever the iron fist was relaxed. Though they loathe bureaucrats, ordinary citizens have great faith in the idea of a "benevolent czar" who will keep order. First Gorbachev and then Yeltsin appeared to fill the bill, but Sergeyev believes that within 18 months economic chaos will force the masses to turn back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Crisis of Personality | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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