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...fact, Richard Hawk, 40, an aggressive defense attorney from the San Francisco area, not only entered a not-guilty plea but sued Sutler County for $350 million (twice its assessed valuation) for slander and false arrest. The entire investigation, Hawk insisted, had been "thoroughly bungled...
When American actors tackle a play like The School for Scandal, they often get jittery and are tempted by the safety exit of farce or the urge to humanize characters that are basically stylized commentaries on such moral vices as slander, hypocrisy and deceit. To its credit, New York's newly formed City Center Acting Company avoids these two traps fairly well. They give the Sher idan classic the old college try, which is only natural since this troupe springs from the drama division of Manhattan's Juilliard School, herewith embarked on a whirlwind repertory of six plays...
...continues: "Literature is the living memory of a nation. It preserves and kindles within itself the flame of a country's spent history, in a form that is safe from distortion and slander. In this way, literature, together with language, protects the soul of a nation. But woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation of 'freedom to publish'; it is the stopping of the heart of a nation, a laceration of its memory." When writers, as in Russia, are "condemned to create in silence...
...hold his first major interview ever with Western correspondents was undoubtedly caused by his fear of a Soviet propaganda campaign against him, which has grown stronger in recent months. The most ominous charge made is that he collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. According to Solzhenitsyn, this slander has been repeated by agitprop lecturers at closed meetings in schools, government offices, factories and military units throughout Russia. "Behind closed doors you can make a gullible people believe any lie," said Solzhenitsyn, a former artillery captain who was decorated three times for bravery. "They say, 'Solzhenitsyn gave himself...
Their activity has consisted of writing and signing documents protesting the closed, and therefore illegal, trials of their fellow Ukranians, objecting to officially published slander of their colleagues, and voicing a concern about the consequences of allowing the legal and constitutional violations perpetrated by the KGB to continue, Odajnyk said...