Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BELIEVES the Russian people are condemned to repeat their past, whether they remember it or not. Pipes, a former director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, has spent his years in the History Department trying to prove that Soviet institutions are the product of a Russian consciousness composed o nineteenth-century parts. "There are many similarities between Soviet institutions and institutions in the old regime," Pipes said recently. "Under both systems, the country belongs to the state. The state holds it in "outright ownership. There is nothing like it in the world...
...historical inevitability. In arid prose he tells the story of how the crown, like a spider stretching its tentacles, became the absolute source of political and economic power in Russia, making opposition from interest groups impossible for 500 years. When opposition finally did come in the late nineteenth century, the crown reacted with the slow, sharp sting of the police state. For Pipes, it seems only natural that when the Bolsheviks established their own supremacy thirty years later, they adopted the police apparatus that had shadowed their childhood. "Systems remain the same," Pipes said. "Only the personalities tone down...
...when an elusive voice perfunctorily declares that "this film, like all events, takes place at a particular time in a particular place," we are prepared for a violation of the usual rules of narrative. To say that Paul and Adriana's relationship "develops" as it would, say, in a nineteenth-century English novel, would be to misrepresent Tanner's technique, which, with its series of furtive, sometimes unconnected glimpses into their lives, attempts to reproduce on film the texture of everyday life. Just as affairs in reality are a series of fits and starts, with little coherence while they...
...Vietnamese refugees who apply for political asylum. President Ford has put forward an historical argument leading to the same conclusion. Ford claims that America must live up to a tradition of accepting all refugees. His presentation of history, the textbook version, is only half true. While immigration in the nineteenth century was virtually unrestricted, in this century America has only relaxed immigration quotas when refugees from one of our client states, or our allies as we ingenuously call them, were involved. The Cubans but not the Jews, the Hungarians but not the Biafrans. Added to this side of the record...
...quaint moralism In the temperance spirit, the show offers beer for only a dime a glass. This is a most unusual dramatic production for Harvard, a piece of American social history as well as a piece of popular literature. You may never be able to see a piece of nineteenth century soap opera like this again, at least until it's produced on Masterpiece Theatre. At the Agassiz tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...