Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In fact, the real reason for the wall's demise was Peking's concern that unhindered free expression could lead to a snowballing of discontent against the regime. Earlier efforts to curb dissent-such as the arrest last spring of nearly 30 human rights activists-had only a...
And there is discontent in the Soviet Union. After "climatic changes due to the year of the Simultaneous Orgasm halved the potato harvest to a mere 63 million poods," the "newly clear-headed" citizens began to speak out: "My apartment is too small" "Pravda is dull!" "Remember meat?"
Vlad Georgescu, a Romanian historian, had more opportunities than most of his countrymen. As a professor in Romania, he was able to travel to the West and meet regularly with intellectuals and scholars at American universities such as Columbia and Berkeley. This contact with Western thinkers gave him unique support...
Of course, none of these disadvantages will be easily overcome. Since the satellites in the 1980s will almost certainly have to turn increasingly to OPEC for oil, there will be more inflation and shortages. That is causing considerable worry among the commissars. The trade-off for the deprivation of individual...
Oldtimers called it "the Hot Stove League," the time between baseball seasons when players relaxed and relived their moments of diamond glory. For peppery New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin, it's come to be more a hot shove league, a winter of discontent in which Martin almost inevitably...