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...towards utopian socialism and anarchism. Anna describes his love-hate relationship with both the political and literary establishments. He became ecstatic upon reading a favorable opinion of himself in comparison to Tolstoy, and constantly complained about literary "cliques" from which he felt excluded. He cut off relations with a life-long friend who had failed to introduce him to Tolstoy. Towards the end, Dostoevsky cultivated the friendship of Grand Dukes, and expressed his admiration for Tsar Alexander III. The last chapter of her reminiscences is devoted to a rebuttal of attacks made upon his character and his work after...
...grimy handful of none-too-virtuous witnesses who would just as well cast all blame on the suspect, Jimmy Johnson. A man who, it seems, has already been chewed off and spit out by this world, Johnson is ritually pronounced Guilty by his peers and shuffled off to life-long incarceration...
Young is especially proud of the groups of individuals he has helped horsetrade into life-long friendships. "They called one the bird room," Young says now of the three freshman ornithologists whom he matched up more than four years ago. "They hit it off so well that they stayed with each other through all four years here and now two of them are off on a South American bird expedition together...
During the 1850s Anthony mct Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her life-long friend and collaborator. Stanton had the intellectual ability to conceptualize and develop ideas, but she had little speaking presence or organizational talent. Anthony's gift was as a speaker and master strategist of the movement. Together they founded countless women's rights and suffrage associations, organized annual conventions, campaigned tirelessly from Massachusetts to the Western territories, and co-edited the first three volumes of the extensive History of Woman Suffrage...
...resistance to Saigon's president, Nguyen Van Thieu, mounted not only in the countryside but in the cities, not only among sympathizers with the PRG but among life-long anti-communists, and as Thieu stepped up his attacks on these opponents as well, it became clearer than ever that Thieu's government bore with it no hope for peace and democracy. And for all the courage of Thieu's liberal opponents, two decades of civil war have made it plain that the PRG speaks for most of those Vietnamese farmers who are not simply weary of the war, that...