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...defense of his limited democracy, President Ayub protests that it is Pakistan's best protection against the demagogic misrule that plagued the nation for eleven years under a parliamentary system inherited from the British. Says he: "The curse of Pakistan is an intelligentsia which doesn't understand its own country and its own conditions. We are called heretics if we don't rigidly follow the Western system." Heresy or not, if this week's elections for the provincial assemblies follow the pattern of voting for the National Assembly. Ayub Khan will be under strong pressure from...
...sake writers like Malcolm Cowley became interested in politics, but the Communists had in the meantime preempted the positions of radical social protest. As the instances of Dreiser and Dos Passos show, they were not able to make any cultural use of their pre-eminence. The American intelligentsia turned left in the grim years between '28 and '32, but the Party was never able to adapt itself to it. It was not simply that Marxism produced no literary criticism worth printing, though that was true enough; but even the social criticism of the American Left during the '30's came...
...Praja Socialists, supported mainly by the non-Communist intelligentsia, lost nearly half of their 197 state legislature seats and five of 16 seats in Parliament, and thus virtually ceased to function as an opposition party...
...days are long past when the party could exact direct cultural tribute from the U.S. intelligentsia, when anti-Communist writers found it hard to get their books reviewed in the intellectual weeklies. To those much under 45 in the affluent society of today, the Thirties' preoccupation with class struggle and "social realism" must seem as odd as the 19th century's fondness for collected sermons or the debates of medieval theologians...
...purpose of the Wall had been to halt the flight and its debilitating effects on the East German economy. In a revealing year-end article in Moscow's Pravda, he tried to put all the blame on Western intrigue. "There were considerable difficulties in the education of young intelligentsia from the ranks of the working class," he wrote. "West German firms deliberately recruited such specialists...Some citizens thought crossing the border between the German Democratic Republic and West Germany was just like going from one Germany to another. But in fact they were escaping from the socialist camp...