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Claiming ownership on one side are play wrights W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. They have left the other claimant, director Bill Rauch, with a verse play which popularizes Marxism in a social and political critique of pre-World War Two bourgeois Europe...
Reagan's speech stressed the theme that the Western allies are united by cultural and moral values that stand in sharp contrast to Soviet totalitarianism. The President struck both harsh and conciliatory notes. He summoned the allies to a "crusade for freedom" that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." He caused a stir in the hall when he invited Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to speak on American television if Reagan could also address Soviet citizens on TV. At one point, he expounded on the "astounding" economic failures of the U.S.S.R., declaring that "a country which...
This apparent malaise pervades the China Butterfield visited. He sees it in the factories, where "malingering on the job has become endemic." And he sees it in a compulsory class on Marxism which he attended one day at Peking University: an embarrassed teacher is unable to elicit a response from her students on what are the basic principles of socialism. "China," Butterfield dryly notes, "has become an authoritarian country with an authority crisis...
...subjugation. To answer, there is only the still developing idea that a new sort of Christianity is possible. Or rather, an old sort--a Christianity along the lines suggested by King, by the Latin Americans, and by Christ himself. And then there is this. No other solution, from secular Marxism to rational capitalism, has changed the world too much for the better either...
...fiscal 1981. Aides pointedly let reporters eavesdrop as Reagan warned his hosts that the tiny (pop. 108,000) island of Grenada, whose Prime Minister was not invited to the conference, "now bears the Soviet and Cuban trademark, which means that it will attempt to spread the virus [of Marxism] among its neighbors." Then the President got away to relax at the empty nine-room Barbadian villa of Paul Brandt, a furniture manufacturer from Fort Worth. (Colbert's home was too small...