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...voluptuous Patricia Covich, a freshman from Emerson college who is making her dramatic debut with Brel. She can turn from a light number to give serious pieces like "My Death" or "Sons of ---" more than their native depths. In between she is a bubbly personality who cannot seem to suppress her enjoyment as if it were her first prom, instead of her first job. Rochman's performance was just as powerful if a bit more self-conscious. "Put the best sheets on the bed, Mathilde's come back to me!" he shouts in an exotic number that combined a love...
Hoover shaped our history as few individuals have, and his Bureau will continue that shaping. As long as the government seeks to suppress dissent and destroy movements for social change, J. Edgar Hoover's spirit will be with...
...Manchus who had ruled China for more than two centuries allied themselves with older members of the elite to suppress the younger scholars. Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and other activists who advocated rapid and thorough overhaul of China's government were in exile...
...most chilling tactics used by Soviet authorities to suppress dissent is enforced confinement in a mental hospital. Selected rebel intellectuals are declared insane by obedient psychiatrists, and can be held indefinitely or punished at will-all under the aura of medical treatment and with no need for a public trial that could embarrass the state. The practice dates back to 1936, when the Soviet secret police first established prison hospitals. But only now, in the face of overwhelming evidence, are Western doctors raising a storm of protest against the misuse of their science by Russian colleagues...
...labor camp, plus five years in exile from Moscow. Last week 52 leading Soviet intellectuals, headed by Physicist Andrei Sakharov, asked the United Nations to seek amnesty for Bukovsky. That is unlikely, since his "crime" was passing to the West documentation of how psychiatry is used to suppress dissent-specifically, the case histories of six political protesters held in Soviet mental wards...