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...endured nonstop surveillance; friends who came to visit were sometimes turned away and harassed for the attempt. His homes and car were repeatedly and imaginatively vandalized, doubtless by ever present security forces; repair workers whom he hired were threatened with police reprisals. The country cottage where he celebrated his 40th birthday was officially ordered vacated, one day later, as unfit for human habitation. Havel was never physically tortured, although on at least one occasion a policeman threatened, "Today you're going to get so beat up that you'll have your trousers full...
Gorbachev had played a pivotal role in heading off bloodshed. Visiting East Berlin on Oct. 7, the 40th anniversary of the communist state, Gorbachev cautioned the leaders that they could not count on Soviet support if they used force to crack down, and advised them to launch their own perestroika: "Life itself punishes those who delay." Eleven days later, Honecker was forced out and replaced by Krenz, who immediately sought to appease the marching crowds and the demands from his party for faster reform. His tenure was brief but memorable, if only because he ordered the opening of the Berlin...
...innocence removed, we can now understand precisely what is implied in his associate professorship and the "certainlicense" of his 40th year. There is, to my mind, something inherently parental--or, anagramatically, paternal--about both the stature granted by his academic position and the stature concomitant with his age. His "certain license" is more a "certain censure" should we not take up his passionate lance. Nor would Professor Blumenthal want it any other...
Having acquired a certain license, in my 40th year, to speak of the "younger generation," I must confess that all this rather severely depresses me. On the Harvard campus where I teach, for example, rarely, if ever, do I see the brazen, sap-running spectacle of a hand held, a partner embraced, a kiss tendered (wet or dry), and I cannot help but ask these high-flying, career-tracing, dollar-sniffing, supposedly "younger" persons of the passionate years (to quote someone from their generation, Tracy Chapman): "If not now...when...
...warmup for some of the tough players she will face in Philly, deLone played a practice match last week against Ros Fairbank, the 40th-seeded professional player in the world. Fairbank took the first two sets, 6-1, 7-6 (7-3), but deLone was up, 3-1, in the third when Fairbank had to leave...