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...lean it against the wall because you couldn't move around with it on the floor." He spent four months there, volunteering to scrub toilets, mop floors, "do anything that got me out of that hole." He spent many of the hours reading, including The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's grim portrait of Soviet prison life. Says Metrinko dryly: "I can't imagine a better place to read...
Intentionally vague about his political ideas, he claims to be a simple "union man." But his political goal seems to be an amalgam of Christian socialism and Polish nationalism. He has read Alexander Solzhenitsyn and shares his views of both Communist and capitalist shortcomings. "No system must make people forget that they are human beings," says Walesa. Then he adds enigmatically: "My own plans are far-reaching, but it is too early to reveal them...
...overland and called the Soviets' bluff; Moscow would have backed down and might have been better behaved thereafter. Douglas Mac-Arthur was correct about Korea. Had the general's view prevailed, Reagan speculates, "I don't think there would ever have been a Viet Nam." And Solzhenitsyn is correct today in his dark vision of what will happen tomorrow if the West fails to pull itself together...
...said, her voice strong with the accents of West London, "but we had the numbers on her. People began shouting, 'Afghanistan! Get out of Afghanistan!' When the guide said the trouble was we didn't read anything about Russia, I found myself shouting at her, 'Solzhenitsyn!' I have read 16 pages of One Day in the Life of what's his name. It was boring, boring. But how many pages have you read?" The girl began laughing. Her voice was still hoarse from cheering on Britain's Allan Wells, the 100-meter champion...
NONFICTION: A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet, Richard Perceval Graves ∙ China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh