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...reports, including interviews with high-ranking law-enforcement officers, admit that there has been an "acceleration" of juvenile delinquency. A recent television program in a series on law enforcement was devoted to the story of a teen-age gang that killed two tellers in a Ukraine bank robbery. Literaturnaya Gazeta not long ago ran a detailed account of an incident reminiscent of a macabre scene from A Clockwork Orange: two teen-agers beat to death four drunken adults in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk...
...panels are celebrated as one of the most sublime achievements of Russian culture. Even though the Soviet government still severely discourages popular support of the Orthodox faith, icons have lately regained some of their old luster and status in the U.S.S.R., and have inspired what Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta calls an "Icon Klondike...
...buying the traditional paintings, both for their timeless beauty and as a practical hedge against inflation. The images have become so popular that last week Russians were buying up a first edition of a samovar-table book on the subject (with 50 color plates) at $11 a copy. Literaturnaya Gazeta complained that some citizens purchased icons simply to "create an illusion of eccentricity of thinking or way of life"-in other words, to express their individuality. The images remain a sufficiently powerful symbol of religion and the old regime that many collectors feel compelled to keep them in the back...
Times must be hard for the enemies of capitalist decadence; Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta has laid down a heavy ideological barrage against Film Director Alfred Hitchcock, accusing him of "antihumanistic attitude toward art" and "psychological sadism." But as so often happens, a Communist putdown is a bourgeois blurb. "Millions of his spectators," says the Gazeta, "take Hitchcock's sinister feelings seriously and sigh with relief when the dark in the movie house is dispelled and the lights come on again...
...Harper & Row, 1970), unnecessary incarceration, forced therapy and denial of legal rights are common in the United States. The enormous difference, constitutional rights and traditions aside, is that in the Soviet Union punitive psychiatry appears to be an instrument of policy. With expedient blindness to the Hippocratic oath, Meditsinskaya Gazeta, a leading Russian medical journal, has asserted that physicians "can have no secrets from the state...