Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pity for Patrice. Unhappily, Gomulka -and Poland with him-seems to be moving the other way. Gone are the soaring hopes that followed Poland's famous October 1956 revolt against the Communist yoke. "October? What's that?" cracks a writer. "Our calendar now has only eleven months." For him, free expression died in 1959, when Gomulka's party men took over the Writers' Union and choked off the "deviationists" with threats and a "shortage" of newsprint...
...prison only sharpened Djilas' opposition to the abuses of the Communist system. In his notable book, The New Class, smuggled out to Western publishers, Djilas wrote: "The totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." As chief controller of the new class, Tito was forced to take the remark personally; his court ordered seven more years added to Djilas' sentence...
...Modern woman has decided to understand sexuality, to include it knowingly in her universe without letting herself be carried away by it, to welcome it like a domesticated animal which she can yoke to her uses, not like a savage force . . . Does this presage the end of great passions? Perhaps...
...West, the side-wheel steamship that was standing up the Charleston channel on Jan. 9, 1861 when it became the first target of the Civil War. A story on page 2 lists the principal Southern forts; on the back cover, Ballou Brothers, a New York concern, offers French yoke shirts at $12 a dozen. Nothing in the magazine could be considered timely, but last week 1,600 subscribers studied it as avidly as their morning papers. What they were reading was a faithful reproduction of Harper's Weekly, a 19th century publication that rose and prospered more than...
ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com- peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help to Apollo, who tamed a wild team that Admetus drove to victory to win Alcestis. See Music, Mommy...