Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first great dissident event of the post-Stalin era -- the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, writers whose books were published in the West under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. Somebody had revealed their real names, and they were immediately arrested on orders of then KGB Chief Vladimir Semichastny. I was one of the Soviet writers who protested that trial...
...totalitarian regime has its brutal side (storm troopers set farmhouses on fire and destroy exile camps to stifle dissent; a rebellious teen is caught and brainwashed). But for the most part, the melodrama is muted, the mood somber and contemplative, the complexities rich. A KGB colonel (Sam Neill) turns out to be one of the movie's most articulate and charming characters. And, despite the anti-Communist theme, the film is a subtle refutation of Reagan-era optimism. These Americans, after all, are not can-do patriots but meek, dispirited folks who simply want to get along. "Just surviving," says...
Outside the State Department, a knot of conservative protesters shouted, "Tambo, go home!" and "The A.N.C. means the KGB!" Inside, Secretary of State George Shultz was closeted with Oliver Tambo, the leader of South Africa's outlawed black revolutionary organization, the African National Congress. It was the first time a senior U.S. official had met with a leader of the banned A.N.C., and marked a broadening of the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement" with the South African government...
...come true: he danced the gamut of Western choreography, now heads a major company, the American Ballet Theatre, and is making his third film, Giselle. His second movie, White Nights, tells the tale of an emigre star whose plane crashes in the Soviet Union, forcing him to outwit the KGB in a second flight to freedom...
Nicholas S. Daniloff '56 wrote his government honors thesis on "Political Obligation in the Thought of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus." In what was perhaps an existential forshadowing of his later capture and brief imprisonment by the KGB, he wrote in his thesis, "what makes their ideas relevant to the subject is that both of them intensely live, and write about a peculiar crisis, a crisis at once philisophical, ethical, and political...