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...decisions about spending on military vs. consumer goods in the economic hard times of the mid-'80s, the leaders may be forced to demand greater discipline and more sacrifices from the population. Such policies will present hazards for any new regime. Soviet elite -members of the party, favored intelligentsia, and so on-could become politically disenchanted with any government that severely restricts their perks. Stiff labor discipline, cutbacks on wage increases and higher prices for consumer staples could lead to popular unrest-as they have in Poland and other East bloc satellites. In sum, the most probable forecast...
Brzezinski's policy views, many colleagues contend, have been molded largely by a background of Polish intelligentsia and exile. Born into a moderately wealthy family in Warsaw, he was taken to Canada at the age often when his diplomat father was posted to Montreal before World War II. When the Soviets installed a Communist government in Poland after the war, the family was cut off from its homeland for good. Says one Columbia professor: "Brzezinski thinks like a Pole. With hundreds of years of Polish history behind him, he is pathologically opposed to Russia and its modern-day successor...
...example of decadence--decay of values--in which the only proposed action is laughing at oneself. Noam Chomsky has written about precisely this, the failure of the American intelligentsia profits-before-people policies, willfully blind and/or intimidated...
...member of the squash intelligentsia about Mike Desaulniers and you get responses like, "What can I say that wouldn't be trite?" His pure ability is beyond reproach; but he has more at stake now--this time, as captain, a team victory is everything...
...Russians who colonized them, have long since lost much of their cultural distinctiveness. Another kind of excursion was plotted by the late English scholar Max Hayward, whose introduction covers the entire span of Russian history, with diverting digressions on such topics as peasant life, Cossack lore, the liberal intelligentsia and Russian tycoons. A 15-page miracle of compression, the essay is a learned, graceful and witty commentary on the book's fugitive images of every day life...