Word: communisms
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...book, as it is a key to all her work. The sections of the notebook divide themselves by color. Black: dealing with Africa-the failed hope of homeland for one of her principal characters. Red: dealing with politics-the failed hope of Communism. Blue: dealing with emotions-the failed hope of possessive love. Yellow: the story within the stories-the hope of art to make sense of all the rest. In effect, Miss Lessing has been working through this sequence of disillusion toward a private religion of her own. In Briefing for a Descent into Hell she has arrived...
...called on the government to act with understanding in regard to communist "sympathizers," who are in reality only non-political villagers forced to aid the guerrillas. "Probably," he explains, "this is one reason why we have been told that the number of local people turning to the idealism of communism is increasing. In fact, some of our officials have been forcing the figure to increase...
REAL OR imagined threats to national security have been used more than once as a handy umbrella for investigations actually aimed at those whose political activities and beliefs the government doesn't like. During the fifties, the supposed dangers of Communism served as an excuse for Congressional investigating committees to delve into the personal affairs of large numbers of Left-leaning American citizens. Now the alleged activities of Weathermen are being cited by the Justice Department as grounds to conduct Grand Jury investigations of radicals...
...Subcommittee on Internal Security has in past years held hearings on Communism, SDS, and student unrest. "They're fighting against the growing crisis of creeping subversion," Ansara said...
...afternoon: the need to end secrecy in defense research. He also talked about freedom of speech-and appeared to practice it despite the insults hurled at him. Of course the students wanted to talk polities. Teller maintained that he had no opinion on socialism or capitalism. But communism-well-that's something else. It seems that this friend of his was sent to Siberia. A good scientist, too.... Often the lady in makeup had to intervene between him and the students...