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...dance floor fills with couples reliving junior high sock-hops. Every few minutes a fellow who works nights for Penn Central and is calling in sick to be here, jumps up to imitate Lennon. "Back in the USSR. Yeah! Back in the USSR," he sings, waving an invisible guitar over his head. "Yabadabadaba!" shouts someone as a Magical Mystery Tour Guide throws a box of blurry photos over the balcony. Suddenly, there's a minor re-enactment of mobbing the Beatles; this time it's only pictures. Hands clutch at the paper, as though they were home runs hit into...
...Soviet musician has been an outspoken defender of artistic freedom in the USSR, and he sheltered novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn prior to the author's exile...
Even if you decide to skip the mysterious USSR in 1974, or to pass up the bistros of Bulgaria this time around, Let's Go will be a useful companion as you get insulted in the more traditional stops on a European tour. Its different attitude is reflected even on its cover, and Let's Go's hitchhiking hand should be more popular among Europeans this summer than Arthur Frommer's prominent American dollar signs...
...beginning would be arbitrary. So we may as well start with October 26, 1962, with Barrington Moore, then a senior fellow in the Russian Research Center, telling 1000 people in Lowell Lecture Hall (another thousand had been turned away) that "simultaneous revolutions" in the U.S. and the USSR represented the only "realistic prospect of peace." Moreover, Moore told students alarmed by what they considered dangerous American bellicosity over the Soviet Union's stationing missiles in Cuba that "realistic or moderate" protests like theirs "ran the risk" of suggesting that public opinion influenced American foreign policy. Students should leave "constructive alternatives...
Ultimately, this is the great contradiction: As American capitalism's genuine need for foreign resources grows, the cost of containing revolutions abroad multiplies. Not only must a complex network of relations with other industrial powers (including the USSR) be maintained, but the United States must confront its ultimate inability to offer any program of social reform as adequate as socialism to meet the desperate material and social needs of Third World nations...