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...does not offend its rulers by being openly antiCommunist. Budapest's relatively relaxed ways are largely the result of efforts by Premier Janos Kadar to erase the bloody stains of 1956, when he personally called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have been lifted; last year 6,000 Hungarians were allowed to take...
...with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?" Assuredly the moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand, in his strongest and most fully developed form, never feels the demands of life as an odious burden. "Dull submission," according to James, "is left far behind, and a mood of welcome, which may fill any place on the scale between cheerful serenity...
Instead of deploring the loss of freedom in revolutionary France, Arendt points out, 19th century political theorists decided that even more terrorism was needed to "liberate" the masses. Marx declared that only violent revolution could free the poor from the yoke of the bourgeois oppressors; Hegel announced that violence was not to be shunned but to be welcomed as an inevitable part of the historical process. In their time, the Bolsheviks solemnly followed the instructions of these teachers down to the last detail, and produced the most ferocious revolution of all, in which the declared end-freedom-was completely swallowed...
Citing the voting records of Southern senators, Sen. Neuberger declared that "the biggest change in Congress will come when the South gets a two-party system." Until then, the Democrats will have a "Southern yoke" around their necks...
Minor Nuisance. Many of them were kids, 19 or 20 years old, often newly married, with a couple of yoke of oxen and no fear at all. On a good day they could make 14 miles, and after two months of walking or jolting along, they still had 1,500 to go. When a baby was born, the wagon train would stop for a few hours. They were not the sort of people to die on the trail, and amazingly few did. In fact, the skeletons that are strewn all over the emigrants' path in Stewart's book...