Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends, he is a vigorous, burly, bearded man with a booming voice?possessed equally by his love for Russia and his passion for freedom. To the Stalinists, his enemies, he is the arch-accuser, the self-appointed prosecutor, blackening Russia's name abroad. His works blaze with the indignation of a man who knows his enemy: he spent eleven years in prison, slave-labor camps and exile. His books, as one of the establishment's tame writers once charged, are "more dangerous for us than those of Pasternak. Pasternak was a man detached from life, while Solzhenitsyn is combative, determined...
...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 for experimentation that distinguished it during the '20s. The literature of our country appears today to all the world as infinitely poorer, more flat and worthless than it is in reality, than it would look if it were not being restricted. I propose that the congress should demand and obtain...
...longer abide the freedom that Alexander Dubček had granted the Czech press. "The reintroduction of bourgeois press freedom led to the most destructive consequences," declared the Moscow paper in an editorial explaining the invasion. While it lasted, moreover, it was a freedom exercised furiously, with a passion pent up by two decades of enforced Communist conformity. And, despite the Russian tanks, it is not yet completely dead...
...have courage and make the plunge to claim his girl ("You have found her/Now go and get her"). When the Beatles are urged basically the same thing in "She Loves You," they openly and joyously exhorted; "Hey Jude" is inexpressibly tender, muted and moving. The push into passion that the Beatles delicately say for their friend...
...discipline that can be practiced by someone who has fled the old priesthood and has yet to found his own. The question that arises from many of Cohen's poems is: Where can a radically enlightened individual invest his passion and get a steady and satisfying return? Revolutionary politics has its possibilities but, as Cohen notes in his poem Kerensky, the vision of revolution is all too brief. Cohen's own experiences in this area include a disappointing 1961 adventure in Cuba as a would-be volunteer for Castro just before the Bay of Pigs invasion...