Word: honored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decipherable moment of ineffable unity. And so, rowing Endgame on top of Presidential Power, and ling the ineluctable pull of some Taoist-Maoist dooms against my Captain Shotover-Thomist faith, I ded for Sanders to hear the Stravinsky Mass, and oral works by Britten and Dello Joio in honor of the atron saint of music...
...with a rare and unpopular demonstration of pro-Soviet support, staged in a downtown Prague meeting hall by the Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship Society. It drew some 3,000 middle-aged and elderly citizens, the rank and file of a hard-line group sometimes called the Novotný Orphans, in honor of Stalinist ex-Party Boss Antonin Novotný. With some 20 Soviet officers seated on stage, the crowd applauded wildly as Novotný's former foreign minister, Vaclav David, called for "an open fight against antisocialist forces." Meanwhile, outside the hall, some 500 younger Czechoslovaks waited. As the crowd...
...Thinking Being. Kosterin's recent dismissal from the Soviet Writers Union, said Grigorenko, placed him in the admirable company of Boris Pasternak. Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn was almost kicked out, he added, "although it is Solzhenitsyn who confers honor on the Union of Writers by being its member, while the union adds nothing to Solzhenitsyn." Then, returning to the hard life of his friend, he paid final tribute to a valiant spirit and, in the process, movingly described the source of intellectual discontent in today's Russia. "A person, in Kosterin's idea, is a thinking being. Therefore...
...have honor to be subjugated in fourteenth century by Chinese pirates, In sixteenth century by English missionaries, In eighteenth century by Japanese warlords, And in twentieth century by American Marines...
Being tapped for the semi-state-sponsored organization is deemed an honor comparable to receiving a commission in the Nebraska Navy or a nomination as a Cook Country poll-watcher...