Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn speaks in the tradition of Dostoyevsky, who taught that if man did not worship God, he would worship the devil or himself in the form of Caesar. This is a dubious ground for the pluralistic beliefs essential to a democracy. Organized religions in the past have supported despotism, and some churchmen in our own time still...
...asked directly whether they favor independence, Quebeckers are expected to turn down the option decisively.) The combative Levesque, who considers Canada's 111-year-old confederation to be an "obsolete contraption," has vowed to boycott any talk of constitutional reform while he is in power. In typical form last week, he declared the federal proposals "profoundly inane." Said he: "What we've got is the mountain bringing forth a mouse, and I'd say a mouse that hasn't got that much life...
...dollar of tax, and they need to deliver excess tax dollars back to the taxpayer. But all of that can be readily granted without committing fiscal hara-kiri." To John Petersen, an official of the Municipal Finance Officers Association, a group that views virtually any tax cut as a form of harakiri, Proposition 13 is "a Frankenstein, a green hulk emerging from the swamps of the West...
...rights had earned them "the condemnation of people everywhere who love freedom." "By their actions," Carter added, "they have demonstrated that the Soviet system cannot tolerate freely expressed ideas, notions of loyal opposition and the free movement of peoples. The Soviet Union attempts to export a totalitarian and repressive form of government, resulting in a closed society...
More than anywhere else, this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development [of independent thought]. I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a far-away small college, who could do much for the renewal and salvation of this country, but his country does not hear him because the media are not interested...