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...writer's anti-communist rhetoric was motivated less by reason than by sheer emotion and petty frustration. Mea Culpa, for example, was partly a virulent response to the rejection of Celine's script for a ballet by the Marinski Theater in Leningrad, although his failure as a choreographer and scenarist never enters into the pamphlet. A similar flopped attempt at film writing in Hollywood set his anti-semitism ludicrously into gear: "The Hollywood Jews ... know what a pretty girl is. Ah Goldwyn Mayer! I would have given ten years of my life to sit for one moment in their armchairs...
...less constantly since 1974, when he lost in a semifinal world championship match to Karpov and then complained publicly that his fellow grandmaster had a "poor chess arsenal." But Korchnoi's gambit seems to have caught everyone off guard, particularly his wife and 17-year-old son in Leningrad. They knew nothing of the defection until they heard it announced on a Voice of America radio broadcast...
Keenan says he spent two years in Leningrad University so he knows the limitations of education in an atmosphere where free speech is hampered. But he says, "Despite all that, it is better that Leningrad be open than closed...
Keenan concedes that there is a chance that the intellectual freedom that he wants at the school may be hampered. But he says he is convinced that conditions of free speech are going to be enormously better than they were in his years at Leningrad. "In my own judgement this institute will improve the life of many Iranians, maybe all Iranians. If it were appearing to me that my calculation about its ability to do so are mistaken, then I'll withdraw. And," he adds with a slight smile, "I wish I could find a university like this...
...disappeared with equal finality into what George Orwell called "the memory hole." Only one case in a Communist country has provoked Western out rage commensurate with the reaction to the Spanish executions. That was when the death penalty was imposed on two out of eleven would-be hijackers in Leningrad in 1970. Western leaders chorused appeals for clemency. The Soviet supreme court ultimately commuted the sentences to 15 years at hard labor. Ironically, the Soviet decision was prompted less by the worldwide protest than by Franco's decision to commute the death sentences of six Basque nationalists scheduled...