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...Common Market, neither the laggard 88th Congress nor the problems of the Atlantic Alliance, sparked much interest. Said former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow: "Like most people, I haven't fully comprehended that the President is gone. I think the general mood is very mixed-one of sorrow and of comfort. Luckily, there is no international crisis at the moment." But there was some talk about the health of the economy, the prospects for a tax cut and a civil rights bill-and there was a great deal of speculation about the new President...
This time Solzhenitsyn's subjects are far less provocative - the life and death of an old peasant woman existing on the fringes of Soviet society; an incident between two soldiers in wartime. But in each, not so much from easy political resentment as from a profound accumulation of sorrow, Solzhenitsyn asks questions that challenge the validity of the whole Soviet system...
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...remark attributed by you to him. In fact, the Prime Minister on several occasions expressed shock and sincere sympathy. In a nationwide broadcast on Nov. 23, he said: "President Kennedy's passing away is a terrible tragedy for the world, and our popple in India share with deep sorrow the grief and general feeling all over the world, especially in the U.S. To the people of the U.S., who have lost suddenly and so tragically their great leader, we offer our respectful sympathy." JANKI GANJU Principal Press Attache Embassy of India Washington
...sentences, the brooding manner, the great, obscene chuckles whose delight it was impossible not to share, all were touched with something superhuman, something demonic. He lived intensely, self-destructively even. Those who loved him wanted him to take things easier, to save himself, to bank the fires; but with sorrow and awe we see that giants were not meant to live that...