Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago caught Gorbachev without a workable nationalities policy. The Armenians are enraged by what they claim are flagrant cases of ethnic abuse against their compatriots living in Azerbaijan. Gorbachev's prestige plummeted in Armenia when he gave a finger-wagging lecture to Armenian intellectuals who had come to present their case in Moscow last summer and when he ended his snap tour of the Armenian earthquake zone last December with another outburst against nationalists...
Despite what the election indicated, there is significant resistance to Gorbachev's reforms. While managers and workers realize that the present system has its flaws, they are not eager to take a leap into the unknown. Many are satisfied with a social contract in which, as Soviets cynically joke, "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." The probability, nevertheless, is that Gorbachev will become more, not less, impatient. "Shortages exist because we are moving too slowly, halting and stepping off the road too often," says Abel Aganbegyan, an economist who helped shape Gorbachev's ideas...
Last month a team of 26 U.S. mental-health experts made an unprecedented two-week tour of Soviet psychiatric facilities. Armed with a list compiled by human rights activists of present or former mental patients believed to have been hospitalized unjustly, the delegation interviewed 27 people. The American group, which included psychiatrists, attorneys and a psychologist, has agreed not to discuss its findings publicly until the official report on the trip is issued later this year. At a press conference, the only revealing comment from Dr. Loren Roth, the University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist who led the group, was that...
More than political expediency seems to be involved, however, in the present re-examination of Stalin. Journalists and scholars seem genuinely eager to drop their traditional roles as perpetuators of useful historical myths and instead tell the painful truth. Gorbachev gave the signal in a February 1987 speech inviting them to fill in the "blank spots" in Soviet history, and writers have responded with everything from weighty historical tomes to popular entertainments...
Pilbeam says he believes limiting enrollment in certain classes is the best solution under the present system...