Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia's present masters do not rule like Stalin; the camps of which Solzhenitsyn writes are mostly gone. But more and more Russians are beginning to realize that these men did share complicity in Stalin's crimes. And thousands of ordinary Russians were touched by guilt, because they let friends, neighbors, and members of their own families be taken away in the night without protesting. Could anything have been done to stop Stalin's police? Probably...
...Communist system that they want it overthrown. But in general, the dissenters share three basic aims. They want full exposure of the crimes against the Soviet people during the Stalin era. They want the regime to halt the rehabilitation of Stalin and the restoration of Stalinist methods. Finally, they are outraged at the illegality of the regime's tactics against them: the confinement of dissenters in lunatic asylums, the searches and seizures of private papers, the arrests for circulating manuscripts or for demonstrating peacefully in public assembly...
...capitalist ethic of each-man-for-himself-and-God-help-the-one-who-fails by the ethic of service for the universal good. The radical is led, in turn, to the inescapable conclusion that the only tactic open to him is to stake out a community of people who share the same life-style. Such a community would tend to have the same political beliefs as well because one's individual orientation towards one's fellow beings cannot help but influence one's political and social outlook...
...line. But in the ten Black Belt counties where the average income for a black family is less than $600 less than half the "survival level"--a disturbing conclusion is obvious. Either there is something grotesquely wrong with the statistics, or else thousands of American families have missed their share of American plenty...
...example, he said, Harvard could share its Mbraries with Cambridge residents and make greater efforts to involve them in the intellectual life of the University...