Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NANCY STALLER Glencoe, Ill...
...letup of sorts in Russia's widely publicized trials for "economic crimes," which during 1962-64 sent at least 163 per sons to the firing squads. More than half of them had Jewish names, leading to charges that Jews were being made the scapegoats for a chronic Soviet ill: the notorious pilferage from state-owned factories of everything from lipstick to girls' sweaters, for sale at a profit. Last week another such case was revealed - and again the big name was Jewish...
...dismissed soon after he and a visiting Negro minister sang We Shall Overcome from the pulpit. Last February, the Rev. William Youngdahl of Omaha's Augustana Lutheran Church was forced to resign his charge after congregants protested his involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left his church, after being repeatedly urged by parishioners to stick to the work of the parish and leave civil rights to God. Ironically, Davis and the 400 parishioners of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church are Negroes...
...Cynthia Ozick's ill-fed, unkempt, rumpled and generally undusted husband, I deny your characterization of her-in your otherwise shining review of Trust [Aug. 12]-as a "housewife." That, God knows...
Sinyavsky was sentenced to seven years' hard labor, Daniel to five. Both are now reported to be in ill health. Neither writer has been demonstrably anti-Russian or even clearly critical of any Soviet regime since Stalin. By defining literature as propaganda and, for the first time in Soviet history, actually trying writers for "political crimes" on the basis of what they had written, the judges outdid Stalin. As Sinyavsky aptly says in his essay On Socialist Realism: "So that prisons should vanish forever, we built new prisons...