Word: membership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been at the meeting downstairs that Jim Oesterreich chaired about the "membership" of the Resistance. Jim later won Supreme Court case about divinity students. The meeting decided that to be a member, you would have to do something. Before, the only criterion had been handing in your draft cards or, for girls, liking to talk with boys who had handed in their draft cards. Handing in your draft card had always seemed to me to be doing something...
...longer remain a member of the Communist Party. I request you to release me from membership of the C.P.S.U. I hereby withdraw from my duties as party secretary of the Writers Organization of the Tula Region. I have left my party membership card there...
...longer wish to remain a member of the Union of Writers of the U.S.S.R. I request you to release me from membership and from my obligations as Deputy Secretary of the Tula Regional Writers Organization...
...taught two courses on mathematical models for economic planning at the Economic Institute, which corresponds roughly to a department of economics at a university here, at the University of Havana. And I gave a series of seminars--colloquia really, since the membership varied considerably--on the economics of education. I also spent some time advising economists in the Ministry of Education and as well as the men responsible for the long-term planning of the University. What About Your Family...
That is what Doris Lessing is about -questions, not opinions. She began asking them as a girl growing up in the vast, empty landscape of Rhodesia. Her questions concerned racism, and the answers led her into radical leftism and membership in a Communist group "so pure it must have been blessed by Lenin in his grave." When she moved to England in 1949, at the beginning of her writing career, she was a party member for a few years...