Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admired in those days the whole revolutionary attitude of the Communists . . . When I arrived in Russia, after making a careful investigation of conditions there, I must admit that all my hopes about the revolution were blasted. I was convinced, that the aims which the Communists struggled for could not be attained through the methods they used...
...government. Tanner declared that he would retire to his farm near Helsinki, "to write books and raise forests." Before he left Helsinki, he had one more political pronouncement. "I am proud of the Socialist Party's fight for democratic principles," the old man thundered. "The Finnish Communists must be placed where they belong. Right at the back of the stalls...
...gaiety . . . exhibiting all the characteristics of a most prejudiced intelligence." But when the bachelor grew old and blind he used to lapse into terrible silences, broken by the words "I think only of death!" At 70, 13 years before his death in 1917, Degas told a visitor that "One must have an exalted idea, not of what one does, but of what one will some day accomplish. Otherwise there is no use working...
Russian scientists, like Russian artists, must toe the party line. Soviet biologists who disagree with the scientifically naive theories of T. D. Lysenko, Communism's pet geneticist, run the risk of being "disciplined." The penalty for arguing is demotion, imprisonment or worse (TIME, Sept. 6). Economists and statisticians who have deviated from the official line have also suffered. But until recently, Russian physicists were left alone. The Soviet Union, struggling desperately to make an atomic bomb, needed all its physicists...
...word Satyagraha is Sanskrit in origin-a combination of satya (truth) and agraha (insistence). Gandhi's passion for truth was evident from the beginning of his life. Truth, he once wrote, "became my sole objective." The only way to approach that objective was through love. Evil must always be opposed, but not by making the evildoer suffer. Rather, one must influence the evildoer to change his ways by undergoing suffering oneself-even, if need be, unto death...