Word: serfdom
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...human life now to be surrendered to blind chance and accident, habit, stupidity, and chaos?--or worse still, allowed to lapse into the control of elites with stunted souls who can count on the despairing resignation of everyone else to manipulate or intimidate the species into a cheerful, comfortable serfdom? The only trouble with most atheists and agnostics is that, deep down, in their bones, they still feel the future of the world couldn't possibly be ghastly, that Jesus loves them, and that they're never actually going to die; in short, they still believe...
...ASSOCIATED PRESS PICTURE CAPTION ON A MOSCOW CROWD SCENE ["The Road to Serfdom"-July 7] ERRONEOUSLY DESCRIBED THE PEOPLE AS PARTICIPANTS IN JUNE 23 DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE WEST GERMAN EMBASSY. THE PICTURE SHOWED A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS RED SQUARE. INQUIRY HAS DEVELOPED THAT THE MOSCOW GROUP THUS PICTURED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEMONSTRATIONS...
GOGOL, by David Magarshack. A sound, readable biography of the little 19th century Russian neurotic who became one of his country's great novelists. Incredibly, he exposed corrupt Russian bureaucracy and the horrors of serfdom in books of genius while obsessed with the notion that he was really helping to preserve the Russia he loved...
...Gogol published the first part of his greatest work. Dead Souls, a novel that brilliantly exposed a brutal anachronism of Russian life: serfdom. Serfs, like any other property, could be mortgaged. Gogol introduced a sort of Russian spiv who speculated in "dead souls,'' i.e., defunct but still financially negotiable persons...
...ungodliness, and so on-to define and dramatize what the struggle is all about. Last week the global sweep of the news added up to another concept: namely, law and justice v. authoritarian rule, two 180° opposites ranged against each other across organized land masses of freedom and serfdom. In the reports out of Budapest, Panmunjom, Washington, the operative word was justice; the question welling up, the debate accumulating, the pressure contending, was about how to get justice, how to fortify it, how to throw light on it and extend...