Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another major protagonist is Lev Rubin, the philologist who develops the voiceprinter. Though a prisoner, he is still a convinced Communist. With sympathy and remarkable subtlety, Solzhenitsyn makes clear the process of self-brainwashing by which such a man can sustain such a moral paradox?and can even convince himself that it is right and his duty to help trap Volodin and condemn him to the labor camps...
...large number of the dissenters are, like Solzhenitsyn, writers. But artists, critics, musicians, lawyers, mathematicians have also joined ranks with the writers to protest any return to the moral squalor of Stalinism. Particularly important has been the willingness of noted scientists, such as Andrei Sakharov, who helped build the Soviet H-bomb, to speak out (TIME...
...censorship for which there is no provision in the constitution and which is therefore illegal, the censorship that never passes under its own name and gives literary illiterates arbitrary power over writers. There is no recognition of the right of our writers to state publicly their opinions about the moral life of men and society, to elucidate in their own way the social problems or the historical experiences that have so profoundly affected our country. Many delegates to this congress know how they themselves have had to bow to the pressure of the censorship, to capitulate. They have rewritten chapters...
...they were annihilated, they were stifled, instead of being listened to. Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted" and "not permitted." Literature that does not breathe the same air as contemporary society, that cannot communicate to it its pains and fears, that cannot give warning in time against moral and social dangers, does not deserve the name of literature. It deserves only the name of literary makeup. Our literature has lost the leading position that it occupied in the world at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one; it has also lost the passion...
Krock laments the deterioration of the country's moral and political fiber, the inflation that destroys savings, the pressures toward "total integration" of blacks and whites, the introduction (by Kennedy and Johnson) of a "welfare state subsidized from Washington." He considers it an inexcusable sin that Kennedy and Johnson committed the U.S. to a land war in Asia. Above all, Krock bemoans the "transmutation" of U.S. democracy into a "judicial autocracy" in which the Supreme Court has assumed "overlordship of the government and all the people to fit the political philosophy of the current majority...