Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian the word for voting, golosovat, derives from the Russian word golos, or voice. That also happens to be the root of the word glasnost. Likewise, the election was an extension of the openness and public airing * spawned by Gorbachev's glasnost crusade. Of the reform trinity, glasnost has wrought the most tangible changes, especially for the Soviet intellectual community, Gorbachev's most solid base of support. Nowadays the only heresy is orthodoxy. Says economist Shmelev: "Four years ago, people felt themselves living behind barbed wire. Now we have a degree of freedom for intellectuals and for ordinary people that...
...seemed decidedly unscientific. For decades, sane Soviet citizens were branded as lunatics because they defied the government. They were hospitalized for years under prison-like conditions and put on powerful drugs that turned them into zombies. Particularly unruly patients were sometimes wrapped in wet canvas and nearly suffocated. As word of such abuses spread outside the Soviet Union, the country's psychiatrists became outcasts in the international medical community...
...what makes Frank's show so bad? In a word, Frank...
...another student, who asked not to be identified, says his intial section leader in Physics 55b this term solved problems on the blackboard without uttering a word because he knew so little English...
...good bet that about half of them--those who proudly label themselves 'lifelong residents of Cambridge'--have muttered the word 'Harvard' like a druid curse at least once in their lives," The Crimson wrote...