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...thesis is meagerly developed. She says only that we must "go on pursuing ends that give our esistence meaning.... Devotion to individuals, to groups or causes, social, political, intellectual or creative." Her prescription is meager only because she does not see herself in The Coming of Age as a theoretician of change, but rather as one more marshaller of the facts that indicate that change is imperative. She should be applauded for shoving so much difficult truth under our noses...
Jail Terms. Among the victims of the purge were Theoretician Milan Hübl Kosík, who helped plan the reform program of the Prague Spring; Journalist Jiří Hochman, an editor of what was once a crusading magazine, Reportér; Party Historian Karel Kaplan; and Chess Player Ludek Pachman, an international grand master. Rudolf Slansky Jr. and Jan Sling, sons of the Communist leaders who were executed as "Titoist traitors" after show trials in 1952, were also arrested and then released...
Trotsky was as complete a revolutionary as one could find that side of Mao Tse-tung. He thrived equally on the chaos of armed insurrection and the enforced peace of prison life. It was in jail and during the doldrums of exile that Trotsky became a leading Socialist theoretician and defender of what he saw as the only true political faith -permanent, international revolution of the urban working class. As stage manager of the Russian Revolution's 1905 dress rehearsal, as founder of the Red Army and Commissar of War after 1917, Trotsky tasted his share of glory...
Winston Lord, 34, special assistant to Henry Kissinger. Lord is a brilliant theoretician and report writer, and a bright young Kissinger protégé; despite his relative inexperience he accompanied Kissinger on both missions. Yale-educated, Lord served in the State Department and on the policy planning staff of the Office of International Security Affairs at the Pentagon before joining Kissinger's group...
HERBERT STEIN, 55, an owlish and acerb economic theoretician, is a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is now responsible for planning Phase 2 of the Nixon strategy: what comes after the 90-day freeze. Known for an intellectual agility that some dismiss as sophistry, he will need to be nimble in the task; for several years he has been a determined spokesman against the sort of policy Nixon finally adopted...