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Lenin regarded all that as foolish, but not terribly inconvenient. He paid a certain amount of lip service to the Marxist prophecy, while in his policies he set about battening down the here and now of socialism and deferring forever the promised millennium of true Communism. The last thing he wanted, or would tolerate, was any move that would cause the state to wither or that would mitigate the dictatorship of the Communist Party...
...rigorous naturalism of poverty and mean spirits in the Depression with opulently choreographed dream sequences that stopped just this side of camp. The characters, however rueful or ruthless, were also insatiably idealistic. They actually believed the words of the period's popular songs-so much so that they lip-synced the lyrics to the recordings, and their sad, drab lives dissolved into the art deco optimism of Hollywood musicals...
...fought to a melancholy ten-round draw. Frazier may still shake buildings, but what once would have been lethal lefts did not move Jumbo, a muscle-bound 30-year-old ex-convict, who almost knocked Joe out three different times. Joe's left eye was blackened, his lower lip was frayed, his face was starting to lose definition just like in the old days, and he felt wonderful. "It was worth it to me," he said. "When I got shook, I knew I had to survive. I proved myself. I don't see no reason to stop fighting...
...bureaucratic rule," Bloch said, adding. "We pay lip service to it because its totally unworkable...
Unfortunately, they have refused to go further--to ensure that we will not only pay lip service to the traditional discrimination against Blacks and others, but also take concrete action to increase minority representation. The law review staff should this week commit itself to electing a specific number of minority editors at the next possible opportunity. The review staff should leave the decision of when to discard special provisions for minorities to a future body of review editors--which will be better able to understand minority needs because it will include a significant number of minorities...