Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Small wonder that Malevich is seen, in Soviet terms, as the bridge between tradition and innovation: a sort of starets, a holy man or prophet, whose images invoke deep strands of identification with religious faith and folk culture while pointing to a future wreathed in theory. The reinstatement of Malevich had been under way for years, and yet this show was certainly one of the events in the Soviet Union's intellectual life that define the cultural consequences of glasnost...
When Mikhail Gorbachev first sowed the seeds of democracy, no one could have foreseen that they would mature so quickly into grass-roots revolutions like the Estonian Popular Front. There may be times, in fact, when the Soviet leader must wonder if he has planted a brier patch. The Estonian initiative has given rise to other popular fronts in the Baltic states, but its indirect impact has been far greater. It has become a model for an amorphous mass of unofficial political groupings and single-issue movements across the country, championing causes long ignored by the party and government bureaucracy...
Currently, only 27 percent of Government department concentrators are women. This number is dropping. No wonder...
...United States portrays itself as the protector of Latin American interests from Soviet or Marxist imperialist aggression. But the Soviet Union has its own protective role in the hemisphere, guarding Socialist states from imperialist aggression from the United States. Latin America may wonder what will happen to the principle of national sovereignty in the face of newly allied superpowers...
...wonder the people in Burlington, Vt., cheer his name...