Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impunity," Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev told a Moscow party meeting last week. "The Soviet public harshly denounces the abominable deeds of these double-dealers." Brezhnev was talking about the country's increasingly restless intellectuals, many of whom have al ready been subjected to show trials and long prison sentences for displeasing the state. Before the situation gets better for them, Brezhnev indicated, it will get much worse...
...already had. A few days before Brezhnev's speech, Attorney Boris Zolotukhin was expelled from the party, apparently for defending one of four young writers sentenced last January to prison terms ranging from one to seven years (TIME, Jan. 19). Along with Zolotukhin, the party also expelled five intellectuals who signed a formal protest against the star-chamber aspects of the trial. Far from dealing too sternly with the writers, the pro-government Literaturnaya Gazeta said last week, the courts dealt too lightly with them. Its solution: deport the dissident writers. "Instead of feeding such people at public expense...
...their careers; thus confine themselves to "genteel banter." Historian Staughton Lynd, who has carried his beliefs into angry dissent from the Viet Nam war, criticizes historians who limit themselves to defining and analyzing forces in society. He asks acidly: "Should we be content with measuring the dimension of our prison instead of chipping, however inadequately, against the bars...
...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...
...between the sexes in a pointless marriage. Two seemingly compatible people are brought down by a typical Pavese monster: ennui. Not much here, but short and clean; no wasted words. The House on the Hill has bigger aims. Pavese was an anti-Fascist who was put in prison by the Mussolini regime, and then exiled to Calabria. Actually, he failed to do much more than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through the mouth, and it troubled him. The timid schoolteacher in The House on the Hill is again Pavese. The teacher loves the peasant...