Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruiter spoke to nine students at Harvard after finishing interviews with MIT students earlier than he had expected, a secretary in the Department of Engineering and Applied Physics said yesterday...
...that this hermit, here in his woods, has not yet heard that God is dead? He paces and leans behind the counter: Ezekiel in the valley of the dry bones, you've red it, I know you have, how the Lord told Ezekiel to speak and then Ezekiel he spoke and the bones took on sinew and the bones took on flesh. Or the tale of Balaam's ass. Or about the devil going to and fro in the earth: Yessir the devil is goin to and fro making his work. Making the work of hell...
...prison, or even executed. Instead he was exiled, depriving Soviet dissidents of perhaps their most outstanding leader. He will continue write and to speak; but, for his countrymen, Solzhenitsyn, cut off from the living stream of events, will be the voice from abroad--exiled because the truth he spoke was too powerful to be answered, refuted, denied. The writer was cast out, sent away. But the writings remain...
Before his exile, Solzhenitsyn spoke of his "relief and calmness" in the accomplishment of his mission. This he perceives as a memorial to the dead of the archipelago. But his books are also Solzhenitsyn's gift to the living. Mindful of George Orwell's dictum that he "who controls the past controls the future," he has already wrested Soviet history from those bent on obliterating it and restored it to his people. In the future, he may also succeed in quickening the conscience of both the oppressed and the oppressors in his unhappy country. For, as he wrote...
...doubtful that the AAUP statement will sway anyone. Harvard and Yale have already cancelled, and Princeton hosted the biggest demonstration in the Ivy League this year when Shockley spoke there in December. Few northeastern colleges are likely to be keen on the idea of standing up for Shockley's freedom of speech by scheduling yet another debate...