Word: russias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, yip, yip, yaphank, and let's all wish a happy 100th birthday to Irving Berlin. This week everybody's doin' it -- celebrating the boy born Israel Baline in Russia a century ago, who came to the U.S., reached for the moon and found that there's no business like show business. God bless America: Berlin's songs are his life...
...fact, Roth says one known species on the Steppes of Russia have gone extinct during his lifetime, and he suspects that other unknown cockroach species are now gone as well. "At the rate the tropical rain forest is being destroyed, many of my friends are probably becoming extinct. I think that is one of the reasons we should be describing these things, so we have a record of them...
There is of course some irony in the Russian passion for books. Knowing the power of written words, Russian authority has for centuries accorded books the brutal compliment of suppression. It has slain books by other means than fire. Book publishing first flourished in Russia under Catherine the Great, and yet it was she who used local police, corrupt and ignorant, to enforce the country's first censorship regulations. Czar Nicholas I conducted a sort of terrorism against certain books and writers. He functioned as personal censor for Pushkin and banished Dostoyevsky to Siberia. Revolution only encouraged the Russian candle...
Books are life- forms, children of the mind. A fire that destroyed hundreds of thousands of books in Russia is deeply haunting...
...weak as he may have appeared, Carter never stooped to trading arms for hostages. And he hardly ignored the abuses of our adversaries. He was quick to denounce violations of human rights in Soviet-bloc countries. Under his administration, the flow of Jewish emigration from Russia reached its highest level. He also campaigned for human rights in right-wing regimes: his Administration's diplomatic pressure spurred the release of thousands of victims of state repression in Brazil and Indonesia. Carter "stood tall" to all opponents of human rights, on the Left and Right, unlike the Reagan administration...