Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than political expediency seems to be involved, however, in the present re-examination of Stalin. Journalists and scholars seem genuinely eager to drop their traditional roles as perpetuators of useful historical myths and instead tell the painful truth. Gorbachev gave the signal in a February 1987 speech inviting them to fill in the "blank spots" in Soviet history, and writers have responded with everything from weighty historical tomes to popular entertainments...
...follow us." Another number, the feisty Reptiles, all but declares open rebellion: "We'd be glad, glad, glad/ If some time, any time/ All these reptiles . . . Would disappear forever." Sukachev dislikes assigning meaning to his songs. "I like to stick images together," he explains. "Other people can tell you what they're about...
When the opposition had left, party ideologist Kuznetsov asked John a question: "Tell me, what would happen if you spent the day working for your own magazine and went to work for your competitor in the evening? What would your bosses think of that...
RIZZO has so little interesting to say that he spends most of his time taking cheap shots at Goode, his current political nemesis. He has called the mayor an "ingrate" and says he can't tell the "truth." Rizzo ends every single show with the threatening line, "And good night, Wilson, wherever...
HRAAA director Robert P. Wolff '54 has often said he can't wait until Bok tries to tell Tutu why complete divestment is bad for South African Blacks. But if the issue is never considered, and Tutu rarely attends meetings, Wolff may never see his prophecy realized...