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Stiff Party Rule. The most prevalent belief in Czechoslovakia is that the long, slow campaign of resistance since August has finally had an effect on national politics. The country's strength, say insiders, lies in an expanding axis of students, workers and intellectuals, who staged meetings, sit-ins and work stoppages to protest the Central Committee's announced intention of returning the country to stiff party rule. Not even optimists are convinced that, in the end, their pressure can reverse Russia's considerable success in crushing Dubcek's reforms. But for the time being, at least...
Poor Vladimir. As usual, the press is in the forefront of defiance. The Reporter, banned for a month, welcomed itself back into print with a cover story on the student sit-in, two cartoons satirizing censorship, and an editorial promising to "demand justice" in the event of "any further interference with freedom of expression." Even under the system of self-censorship imposed on publications by the Soviets, it is surprising that so much irreverence got through. But the Reporter employed a rather special system for choosing its own censor, whose name happens to be Vladimir. As a fellow staffer explained...
Savage Sleep lets the reader sit in as a kind of guest analyst at the games the troubled mind plays. Is that ether cone a phallic symbol? What is the significance of those circular patterns that Marks' toughest patient keeps making in her vegetables? Eventually, Marks finds all the answers about his patients and himself. In fact, his only failures result from the meddling of those pompous reactionaries who, according to Brand, run our mental hospitals...
...Their attempt to sit in quietly and observe the Faculty meeting...
Harvard-Radcliffe SDS members discussed treatment of participants in the Paine Hall sit-in and the general movement to abolish ROTC on campus at a meeting in Burr B last night...