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...Even the stolid American Political Science Association has reacted to C. Wright Mills' charge that political scientists are nothing but "the utensils of history makers...
...most intelligent and talented, and put a permanent scar of guilt on the nation's psyche. Industrialization was accomplished only by forced labor and the long and severe deprivation of the populace. The self-defeating collectivization of agriculture was squeezed from the blood and brows of the stolid and melancholy peasantry. Fear has been the single most dominant characteristic of 50 years of Communism...
...Russian's outlook has perhaps been altered more by industrialization and urbanization than by any methodical attempt to reshape his consciousness. Nonetheless, he is basically what he has been for centuries. He retains much of his shirokaya dusha, or boundless generosity, his emotionalism, his stolid endurance, his hatred and distrust of authority and, at the same time, his deep need for it. Despite widespread atheism and official disapproval, religion is proving increasingly difficult to root out. The Baptists, who appeal to the Russian soul with their fundamentalism, are growing steadily, now have more than 3,000,000 members. Even...
...think with White as Mayor, the great creative resources around Boston will get tapped and Boston could again become an exciting city. But if Mrs. Hicks gets elected, Boston will continue to decay until it becomes as stolid and as provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens...
...Even stolid Aleksei Kosygin must have been struck by the change from Glassboro, N.J., where his opposite number was earnestly conciliatory and the townsfolk were downright friendly...