Word: freer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what he calls "a new course" for the country, promising freer travel abroad and declaring amnesty for demonstrators, people who have fled the country illegally and those who have been caught while trying...
Thousands of trucks, buses, motorcyles and vans packed with protesters inched into the central city in the second straight massive protest for a freer China...
...politics of 1969 were ripe with promise. The promise that a freer, more equal society was about to be born. The efforts to make America extend its promises of liberty and justice to women, minorities and the poor. The promise that a younger generation could rise up and present an alternative direction for the nation...
...does freer mean better? Can liberalism guarantee artistry? Alas, no. Nor are today's Soviet films likely to be superior to those of the first flush of revolution. Now that the specter of Stalinism has receded, another shadow haunts Soviet filmmakers, and it may be harder to escape. This is the legacy of Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko and Dziga Vertov, the giants of Soviet silent cinema. Their works (October, Mother, Earth, Man with a Movie Camera) remain at the core of every film curriculum; movies are still made in the visual language they helped invent...
Despite these shifts, change is taking place within a narrow framework. Children must still be taught socialist values; how educators will reconcile that with the promotion of a freer learning environment remains to be seen. Some Soviets do not anticipate major problems. Said Boguslovsky: "I'm a Communist Party member, but I speak openly. To me, the two things are not mutually exclusive. I can be a Communist and also speak the truth...