Word: losses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "these renegades" would be punished. Another trial was held in Leningrad, with 17 intellectuals convicted on the bizarre and clearly fabricated charge of conspiracy to replace the Soviet government with a democracy under the Russian Orthodox Church. Mass expulsions from the Writers and Artists Unions began; this meant loss of jobs and apartments. Among those expelled was Solzhenitsyn's close friend from camp days, the critic Lev Kopelev. Even scientists were suddenly no longer immune. Some top mathematicians who signed petitions were thrown out of the party. In the Soviet Union's finest research center, the largely self-governing...
...displeasure with the uncooperative Czechoslovaks in a Tass report that accused "people in high party positions" of deliberately "sabotaging 'the Moscow agreements." Dubček himself may well be at the top of the list. It has not escaped the Russians that he has managed to countervail the loss of many a reformer by sacking a pro-Moscow counterpart (last week's swap: Hájek for Communications Minister Karel Hoffman, who compliantly ordered radio and TV to go off the air shortly after the invasion began...
...book about Lyndon Johnson. His most gifted cronies took off in other literary directions. Robert Sherrill baited the occupant of the White House with The Accidental President and Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward Home and became the youngest editor in Harper's century-long history. Its liveliest writers gone, its sting vanished, the Observer piled up greater deficits, reduced its size and published only fortnightly editions...
Irony comes with the first rays of morning: the tale will never be told, either by the dumb-struck youth or by the dead millionaire. Chilly splinters of the Dinesen style occasionally gleam in the stilted drama. But recurrent lines, like "The earth trembled at the loss of my innocence," are difficult enough on paper; on film they are impossible...
Harvard's injury-ridden Varsity football team suffered another setback in its preparation for the season's opener Saturday against Holy Cross with the loss of three key players...