Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...openly gay person who gains acceptance on a personal level can further the cause of the entire gay community by dispelling myths and prompting realizations that discrimination against gays is wrong and misguided. The more this is recognized and accepted in society, the easier it will be for others to come...
...tolerance are wafting through many Soviet schools, from first to tenth grade. Always considered a potent means of molding character, schools have been transformed into little laboratories of restructuring. Under Gorbachev, they are to change citizens from sheep into self-starters. Said Boguslovsky: "Soviet society requires not just a person who carries out orders but someone who thinks for himself. Our children are not mannequins, and our school is not a fortress...
...enemy of the people." Before the curtain rises, the audience sits in darkness while voices screech Stalinist slogans over a loudspeaker. Then an imposing photo of Stalin is projected onto a black curtain. Finally, a spotlight sweeps over the audience, stopping now and then to hold first one person, then another and another in its sudden white glare...
...change emerge. Traffic is much heavier, and if Pepsi has not exactly replaced vodka as the national beverage, it is widely available. Cooperative restaurants enjoy a fairly brisk business, at least among those who can afford the prices (lunches and dinners often go for $20 to $30 a person, without drinks or wine). Major hotels offer Western joint- venture seekers many distinctly unsocialist hard-currency attractions -- slot machines, for one -- while out on the sidewalks, better-dressed young people hurry by, oblivious to the stiff-knuckled old women sweeping the streets with birch-branch brooms...
...raised the issue with us. "What do you mean, directly with you?" he asked in surprise. "I wanted to know who it was that allowed you to write that way." That is our major problem. For too many of our citizens, the question is not whether what a person says is correct but whether he has the right to state the truth about a particular subject...