Word: sayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Sides. Shakespeare is attempting to correct what he says has been for too long a liberal tilt to the agency's efforts. "I am determined," he says, "that our USIA overseas libraries will be ideologically balanced on the liberal and conservative sides. I will say something that may sound dangerous-the majority of books written tend to be written by people on the liberal side because they are more articulate. People like Schlesinger and Galbraith. But our libraries must express-clearly and openly-both sides." Finding writers on the other side, however, is not always easy. Recently Shakespeare...
...speak of freedom, but only of external freedom. You say nothing of inner freedom. To have to struggle against the KGB is a terrible thing, but what, in effect, threatened a Russian writer if, before his first visit abroad, he had refused to collaborate with the KGB? The writer would not have gone abroad but he would have remained an honest man. In refusing to collaborate, he would have lost a part, perhaps a considerable part, of his external freedom, but would have achieved greater inner freedom...
...Gradually, however, we are beginning to find strength within ourselves, and this means that sooner or later much can change. Judging by his books, it is impossible to say that Solzhenitsyn is 'persecuted and tormented.' He gives the impression of a man capable of standing up against persecution. He has already once preserved his inner freedom in prison, and will evidently do so again if he is once more put in jail. From this we can all derive strength...
...mess." Last week Peggy made a guest appearance on Namath's syndicated TV show-and melted like an icicle in April. "Gee, I think he's great," Peggy gushed afterward. "He seems to have so much fun." Joe, by all appearances, was equally impressed. "Say, Peggy," he ventured, with a confident grin beneath his latest Fu Manchu, "by the way, what are you doing tonight...
...Hoppe of the San Francisco Chronicle went to the future tense. It is January 1971, and President Nixon has just assessed the state of the Union. "Well, Chet, do you have an instant analysis?" "Yes, I do, David. I'd say it was the most magnificent, glorious, stirring speech since the Gettysburg Address. I think my biggest thrill came when he said, T want to make one thing perfectly clear.' I always get a thrill when I realize the President's going to make one thing perfectly clear...