Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DERSHOWITZ: Would your Honor like to hear what my own state of mind was in regard to what I meant by "deliberate," and what I had in mind and what I think the government has proved...
...because of that. The Justices of the Supreme Court said, "We are public officials just like others and what he is doing is exercising his free speech rights in criticising public officials." I don't think a public prosecutor is above a Supreme Court Justice in that regard...
That thought merged a kind of messianism with Hegelian and Marxian determinism, the idea that vast and blind historical forces sweep across the world's stage without important regard to personalities. But of course that Marxist thought is invalidated by Marxist his tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another...
These are clearly the exceptions, however, and extremely rare ones at that. Historically, male-dominated societies have been willing enough to accept female monarchs who came to power by succession as well as women of great charisma or excellent family connections. But more often men have been reluctant to regard women as equals, much less as superiors. According to Betty Friedan, whose book The Feminine Mystique established her as the founding mother of women's liberation in the U.S.: "Women have made amazing progress. But they are hardly present in any numbers as leaders...
What kind of shock such a book must be for the Russians who manage to read it is difficult to imagine. For some, Stalin is still a hero. To most, Lenin is close to a political saint. Westerners -courtesy of cold war propaganda, a free press and honest scholarship-regard both men with varying degrees of repugnance. Even to them, much of the cruelty and stupidity will seem dreadful enough. Solzhenitsyn produces moments that are unbearable, breaking through all defenses that the mid-20th century reader is likely to have raised against being afflicted by the pain of others...