Word: mindedness
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Not long ago, Oleg Radzinsky, 25, stood before a Moscow judge. The charge: spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. In 1982, Radzinsky had joined with a dozen other young Soviet intellectuals and founded the country's only independent peace organization. Besides seeking to exchange ideas with like-minded Americans, the defendant...
Even if Connery had minded being dressed up in a wig and insulted by a lot of preppies, he probably would have been grinning by then; revenge is sweet, but so is the Pudding show. The Secret Service man on his left cracked a smile.
For most of my adult life, the intelligentsia has been entranced and enamored with the idea of state power, the notion that enough centralized authority in the hands of the right-minded people can reform mankind and usher in a brave new world. [Now, however,] the cult of the state...
The Good Fight also tells of the disdain that the members of the Lincoln Brigade faced when they returned to the United States. Even though some members of the Brigade were communists and others were not politically minded at all, all were blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
The whole issue seems to rest upon the world's desire to force Israel to live up to some impossible standard Other countries wreak violence and destruction at will and are never called to account (Syria and Soviet Union spring immediately to mind), while Israel is condemned for even being...