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...harassment of Solidarity union members. Workers wearing red-and-white armbands clustered at factory gates, shop fronts and mine entrances under a cold fall drizzle. In the Baltic port city of Gdansk, where Solidarity was born 14 months ago, hundreds of men and women gathered at the Lenin Shipyard and draped its gate with flowers. In heavily industrialized Silesia, brawny metalworkers stood idle in the shadow of towering steel-mill chimneys. In Warsaw, flag-draped buses and tramways came to a halt, snarling traffic for blocks around...
...given up." The aphorism is a frag ment of autobiography. Born in 1905 in a Danube port city in Bulgaria, Canetti claims that his Turkish-raised grandfather boasted of knowing 17 languages. After his fa ther died in Manchester, England, Canetti zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto-da-Fé (1935), published on the eve of Hitler's Anschluss, initiated the theme that would obsess Canetti over four decades: how to pay close attention...
Strikes. Economic debacle. Invasion jitters. It might seem at a quick glance that nothing much had changed in Poland since those turbulent days last summer, when an obscure electrician named Lech Walesa clambered over the gates of Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk to take control of a burgeoning national strike. In reality almost everything is different. The 1980 strikes shook the Communist world to its roots, engendering the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, Solidarity, and launching a far-reaching process of reform and re-examination called odnowa (renewal...
...roar throbbing through the rafters of Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater was loud enough to rouse the Soviet Union's founding father in his Kremlin mausoleum. After two decades of sparring with the Soviet authorities, hard rock had triumphantly taken the Lenin stage. The occasion was the premiere of the country's first rock opera, Juno and Avos, by Alexei Rybnikov, a popular composer of movie scores. In addition to guitars, violins, cellos, drum and a chorus of 16, Rybnikov called for electronic instruments-including a Multimoog synthesizer and a Roland paraphonic-rarely used before...
...first act made clear that the show would be Moscow's biggest smash in years, enjoying an open-ended run as part of the Lenin Komsomol's permanent repertory. On opening night the 810-seat theater was jammed. The elite audience, which had received free tickets, cheered lustily, giving Rybnikov and Voznesensky standing ovations...