Word: solzhenitsyn
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Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, conductor Sir Georg Solti, novelist Gunter Grass and undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau are among past recipients of honorary degrees. Cronkite follows Rodney Dangerfield and Theodore H. White '38 as Class Day speaker...
Cronkite's degree will include a tribute to his contributions. Solzhenitsyn's citation read: "The clear contemporary voice of a great literary tradition, like his predecessors a courageous exponent of the unfettered human spirit...
...future seminars address themselves to Sidney Hook's work, the correct response will require only one word change: Any year, please. As these 21 feisty essays demonstrate, over the past four decades the teacher-philosopher has seen no reason to alter his course. He did not need Alexander Solzhenitsyn to inform him of the Gulag; back in the '30s Hook condemned the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, nations whose politics employed "vicious ersatz theologies." The Supreme Court's pendulum decisions on criminal justice have found Hook unchanged; he has long advocated the rights of the victim: "When...
...characterizing Solzhenitsyn's views as perhaps "too" harsh and "too" chilling, TIME [Feb. 18] ironically illustrates what Solzhenitsyn is ultimately talking about: the West's continued reluctance to face the facts, whether out of "spiritual impotence" or in the name of so-called intellectual detachment. How much more evidence do we need before admitting what the Communists are after? Those of us who grew up in one dictatorship can easily detect the evils of another...
...Solzhenitsyn pleads with us to distinguish the Soviet people from their government. Such a separation is not, however, easy for Americans to make, since our habits of political thought run in different channels. For us, the government, however much we grumble about it, is an unmistakable expression of our aspirations, fears and confusions as a nation. Our difficulty in seeing things as Solzhenitsyn wants us to see them is one more sign of the chasm between our society, with all its failings, and the society of Solzhenitsyn's long-suffering compatriots...