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...Stalin's time, certainly, poetry had the power to arouse the wrath of a dictator bent on destroying his country's intellectual and spiritual resources. At the same time, poetry had the power to console Stalin's victims, as has been amply documented in the writings of survivors of Stalin's gigantic Gulag of prisons, camps and places of exile. A compelling example is Eugenia Ginzburg's description of solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in Yaroslavl. A former schoolteacher and an ardent Communist, Ginzburg was arrested in 1937, like millions of other innocent...
Since the right-wing coup attempt in February, Calvo-Sotelo's Union of the Democratic Center government, fearing the wrath of the military, has not moved decisively against the arrested officers. Calvo-Sotelo believes that any attempt to neutralize the generals' political influence will simply provoke more outbreaks of right-wing terror, perhaps culminating in a successful coup that would indeed bring the military and its allies to power a la turca...
Declaring that "the time for action is now," President Reagan last night urged Congress to pass his entire economic program or face the "wrath" of the American people...
...reductions are in store. In fact, Reagan's top aides have not decided what further cuts they might recommend. Some targets are obvious. For example, cost of living increases in Social Security pensions might be reduced. But the President could not announce that idea now without incurring the wrath of elderly citizens whom he cannot afford to alienate. The defecting conservative Republicans might temporarily be converted: there is speculation that they would not have jumped ship if the hospitalized President had been able to make a person al appeal for their support. But their rebellion points to an unease...
...very difficult to sell." Leonard Reedy, who farms 3,000 acres in Clyde, Kans., reports that high interest rates and low crop prices are killing farmers in his region. Says he: "We've got to do something to get prices up or else have another Grapes of Wrath book writ about us." Joe Lewis has owned a small musical instrument store in Atlanta for more than ten years, but last week he closed up shop for the last time, saying: "I survived the last recession, but this time I'm not making...