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...upset a hero's image stand too close to the surface to be abstracted into a legend. For example, he lives as a millionaire in Switzerland. He calls for the revival of the Russian Orthodox church, a brutal arm of czarist oppression before 1917. He branded former Attorney General Ramsey Clark a "fluttering butterfly" for ignoring Russian dissidents, but visiting POW camps in Hanoi. Solzhenitsyn is among the most conservative of the Soviet dissidents, and in an age where people call for detente, his protests ring with Cold War echoes...
...firm stand in the face of Conservative Party opposition is not without historical precedent. Throughout the 1920s the coal mines were consistently the scene of conflict between labor and management. Between 1921 and 1924 the industry prospered and the workers received a reasonable pay increase through the influence of Ramsey MacDonald's first Labor government. When foreign competition lowered industry profits, management decided to recoup its losses by cutting workers' wages. The solution was completely unacceptable to the miners, and despite intervention by a newly elected Conservative government, the miners walked off the job. The government's position in that...
...Archbishop of Canterbury had another explanation. "I think it's part of the religious trend that's going on, the craving for the supernatural, the interest in the nonmaterial," said the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, who arrived in Manhattan for a lecture tour. "Genuine cases of demonic possession are a minority," he added. "If there's an immense craze on the subject, it is a sign of spiritual immaturity...
Though many lawyers are interested in the Schulman technique, there is also some skepticism. Ramsey Clark, one of the defense attorneys at Harrisburg, observes, "Generalizations developed through sociological data can be very misleading. They can be used to reinforce prejudice as well as eliminate it." Judge Nichol is far more enthusiastic: "I can see the Government adopting this system some...
They are implicit in his play and made explicit by a fine cast. Jane Alexander is exceptional in conveying grief, shock and wifely possessiveness. And Moriarty, Richardson, and John Ramsey as a one-night pickup, never take an emotionally false step...