Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget those quiet Moscow nights of song. There are not enough evenings in the month now to attend all the theater premieres, art exhibitions, poetry readings, film previews and cultural debates taking place in the Soviet capital. Time has to be set aside for watching trend-setting "musical- information shows" such as View or the monthly video digest Before and After Midnight, or for perusing the thick monthlies like Novy Mir and Znamya, which Soviets affectionately call the "fat journals." If the short-lived liberalization that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 was known as "the thaw...
...alcoholism, encouraging people to rebuild themselves -- a sort of perestroika of the personality, one day at a time. More poignantly, it is an exercise in self- expression that is the essence of glasnost, an act of standing up and discussing a shortcoming that the state once preferred to keep quiet...
...years of his life, the police turned up unexpectedly and announced in embarrassment that as foreigners we were "violating a forbidden zone." The good-natured policemen did little to hide the fact that they were being forced to draw up a report on the orders of the KGB. The quiet snowfall beyond the window, reminding us of an old-style Russian winter, was our reward for this "violation...
...thought by 1970-71, my final year, that everything was quiet, and it was over, and Harvard could get back to business," Pusey says. "That was a utopian thought, because feelings were so strong that they were not going to return to normal in a hurry. The faculties were divided, with real personal animosities built...
...Meetings of the faculty, which had generally been rather quiet affairs, began to get larger and larger, as more people came to debate issues which had not been debated before," says Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus Arthur Maass...