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Denied a ration book by the state after the broadcast, Tokes was unable to buy bread, meat or fuel. Parishioners who tried to bring him provisions were confronted by police. The pastor was barred from meeting relatives, and his telephone was shut off. In a surreal form of harassment, authorities occasionally turned on the phone to deliver threats to Tokes, then billed him for the calls at long-distance rates. To protect his four-year-old son, Tokes sent the boy to live with relatives...
...Until now silence has been the only form of honesty, but today we cannot be silent any longer. We are being drowned in the torrent of applause from a claque; suffocated in the sewage of lethargy and sunk in the superidealized cesspool...
Most Popular Entertainment. For a time it seemed that dining out had supplanted baseball or moviegoing as the all-American pastime. Trendy, self- styled trattorias and bistros, with provocative menus and often with fanciful decorative themes devised by hip designers, became a form of impromptu theater for tuned-in young foodies and grazers. Two years ago, some of the diners-out began to drop out, abandoning the scene to turn into couch potatoes. But their need for instant, easy sustenance fostered another trend: take-out food...
...peasants on whose bovine passivity Czar or commissar could rely. Soviets were increasingly well educated and well informed, in spite of the propaganda poured over them. And while they reached political maturity, their leadership sank into senility. The people cringed when they heard the doddering Leonid Brezhnev try to form his words and when they learned that his hands were so shaky he had to eat with a spoon at a state dinner. They told scornful jokes: state radio, cynics said, dared not play any work by Tchaikovsky in a minor key for fear that everyone would think another General...