Word: swansons
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...ultimate dishonesty of Swanson's review lies in his not even mentioning the statement I heard, and reported, time and again during my stay in East Germany: that the vast majority of the East German people feel such hatred for the oppressive and unsuccessful system they live in that they would leave the country were they not prevented by an ugly wall and by mined frontiers with automatically triggered weapons that leave nothing to humanitarian doubts on the part of machine-gun armed border guards...
...hardly expected from The Crimson anything better than Dun Swanson's crude hatchet job on my book, Behind The Berlin Wall. But minimal standards of journalistic honesty might at least have led Swanson to mention some of the book's major themes and findings, so the reader could judge for himself whether, as he argues, the Left should refrain from citicizing regimes like the East German one too loudly...
...totalitarian society. Above all, I sought to see how people themselves reacted to their condition. Thus the bulk of the book consists of conversations with East Germans, young and old, workers and students. In his contemptuous descriptions of my criticisms of the lack of consumer products in East Germany, Swanson doesn't even mention that this lack was an obsessive concern of East German people, which came up again and again in conversations as representative of the contempt the East German rulers showed for their people...
...Swanson's review ritualistically recounts that I found a short supply of "freedom of speech, assembly, and the press." By not going in to further details about what this means for the ordinary person, he is able to make a bizarre comparison between the degree of freedom in East Germany and in America. Why didn't he tell the readers about some of the specific examples of lack of free speech mentioned in the book? Like a university student sent to jail for several years for holding up a lonely banner reading "Russians Our of Germany." Or another student expelled...
Crime boss Dan Swanson will start a jump center against Davis. The Chicago leftist predicted yesterday that his backcourt combination of Sue "Big Boo Yoo-Hoo" Kinsley and Dale "But Don't You Dare Call Me Frail" Russakoff would run Steiner and Mass Hall hack Chuck Daly off the floor. Up front, where it counts, the Crime plans to go with Bob "Daddy D" Decherd and Leapin Liz Samuels, a high school teammate of former Marquette great. Bob Lackey...