Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high a price in instability. Oppression in the Soviet Union comes, at last, to be an expected natural force, like the weather. For Russians mistrust individualism. As a people they have a massive sense of inferiority and vulnerability - they have been threatened and conquered too often. Smith and Kaiser note the irony: dissidents may always grope for the democracy of the West. But the Soviet heart is no longer a rebel. Today's Russian revolution is a series of fitful individual protests. It is not precisely the "class struggle" that Karl Marx had in mind. ∙Lance Morrow
...Simpson is a racist, and he is using racist tactics against me," Glass said. "Many times I've been out and I've presented a note of excuse, even when not necessary," he said...
...later in its study, the panel wrote: "The review committee takes a very serious view of the failure of members, and former members, of the Faculty of Design to cooperate with a committee established by that Faculty, and hopes that the members of that Faculty will take due note of this fact, and take such action as they deem appropriate...
...crowd in front of Mem Church mostly ignored this sole dissident, turning to him only occasionally to note his reaction to speakers. Most chose to listen to the music, speeches, and poetry, laze in the sun, and chatter...
...author of Berlinguer and the Professor is not unaware of the many-faced nature of Italian politics. But if he has a sincere attitude (and in the introductory note he claims to be giving "free rein to the sincerity of my imagination") the message is lost in a sarcasm as confusing as the shifting allegiances of the political situation it mocks. The overtly cardboard characters of the book fight battles that are all sham; the only thing left dead onstage is belief. Laughing at this skeptical satire is too easy an escape from the complex problems of reality, too condescending...