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Through an assiduous campaign of relative liberalization, Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar hoped to erase the image of a Moscow toady that attached to him after Russia's brutal repression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. He largely succeeded. In addition to other forms of relaxation, including somewhat freer speech and more permissive economic planning, Kadar seemed inclined to ease up on the church. After 18 months of complex and arduous negotiations with the Vatican, he recently agreed to replenish Hungary's dwindling supply of Roman Catholic priests and permit freer practice of religion. But liberalization can go only...
...same time, the Communist threat against Europe has eased, and so has some of the feeling of urgency that bound NATO together. NATO's defenders insist that this is due in large part to NATO's very effectiveness. In any event, the allies now feel freer to pursue narrower national interests...
...often, says Dr. Wald, there is a woeful lack of communication between patient and family when death is approaching. "This," he says, "is the very time when communication could be freer and more rewarding than ever before. It is a time when old emotional conflicts can be resolved. I've attended many patients who were dying, and knew it, but had had no chance to discuss their fears with anyone. Many were glad of the opportunity to talk...
...chief propagandist and heaped praise on his boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression, and his 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave the new literary movement its name. In his Memoirs, which have been running, off and on, in the Soviet press since 1960, he has tried to present an unbiased picture of the recent Russian past. It is a gallant and encouraging...
...political science course on political parties and pressure groups taught by a man who should know: Robert Horgan, a Ph.D. from Notre Dame who is also mayor of Dubuque. Twelve hours of philosophy and 14 hours of theology are required, but the academic atmosphere is far from rigid. "A freer academic atmosphere is opening up," says Edmund Demers, a lay member of the faculty. "In the old days, Catholic schools were more concerned with virtue than intellectual achievement. We're still concerned with virtue, but we see college as an intellectual unfolding." A philosophy student says that the most...