Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, the writer refers to the class of 1980 "retaining" the boycott. The class of '80 cannot retain its boycott because we have never been involved in it. Certainly, we have no legal or moral compulsion to continue that which was begun without us, seven years ago. Thus the implication that we are somehow "defecting" is also untrue...
Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet Policy Studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, himself a Soviet Jew who left Russia in 1973: "A cautious effort to make the Soviet Union a more tolerant and civilized society is both moral and practical. At the same time, we have to know the limits of our power." In sum, the U.S. cannot and should not hope to change the Soviet system; such a hope or intention could only be highly dangerous. But the U.S. may, by speaking out for its own principles, make Soviet and other Communist...
...Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and even some of the less volatile satellites, the Russians and their local rulers are being forced to put out brushfires of discontent. The East Europeans are issuing declarations of support for sympathizers abroad and criticizing their regimes on economic, political and moral grounds. Moscow thus faces its most serious troubles in Eastern Europe since 1968 (though now not nearly as severe), when the outbreak of "liberalism" in Czechoslovakia was put down by Soviet invasion...
...refuse government offers to let them emigrate, electing to remain with their countrymen in spite of the risk. When one activist was arrested, another had already been designated to take his place. The goal of the charter movement, says one of its founders, Philosopher Jan Patocka, is "a certain moral dignity." The resumption of the crackdown seemed connected with the arrival of a delegation from Moscow, headed by Ivan Kapitonov, a powerful secretary of the Central Committee and professional troubleshooter...
There is no right and wrong in Greene's moral universe, only suffocation. In yet another village, a peasant shouts out, "We have the moral authority of those who work for low wages." Greene lets it pass, almost conceding the assertion, until he describes the workers who stand behind the Torrijo regime because of its successful "banana war" against United Brands. Suddenly he strips off the portrait of worker dignity and lays bare his outsider's insight into the weekly flight that keeps them going: "They are inclined to begin after early Mass on Sunday. When drunk they bark like...