Word: lenin
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...Cage eventually realized. In Peter Greenaway's 1983 television documentary on him, Cage complains that he has had trouble getting performers to take him seriously. "I must find a way to let people be free without their being foolish," Cage says, "so that their freedom will make them noble." Lenin might have felt the same...
Picture, if you will, a homely and none too bombastic statue of Marx and Lenin, looming over one of the city's grayest public spaces. The men gaze deeply into each other's eyes, their image pathetic yet darkly erotic. Despite its quaint chumminess, the statue symbolizes state oppression and popular fear...
...night of November 9, 1989, things changed. The Wall fell, state socialism gasped its last breath, and the East German people rose up against that dreaded stone symbol of authority. Toppled by the will of the people, Marx and Lenin were consigned to the mass grave of statuary piling up in Eastern Europe since...
...that mass grave, Marx and Lenin would be rolling over if they only knew what was going on here in Harvard Square...
...then the great and glorious day will dawn when Cantabrigians all--every man, woman and child--will rise up under the mighty spell of the Peruvian pied pipers, topple this monstrosity and abandon it in the trashheap together with Marx, Lenin and The Shops at Harvard Yard...