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...social science is wholly ideological and incapable of useful analysis. However, during Khruchev's years in power. Soviet scholars gained greater access to Western scholarship, censorship was loosened and researchers were given increased authority to determine the focus of their own studies, always though within a Marxist-Leninist conceptual framework. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Brezhnev tightened the control over academe, but not all scholars found their discretionary authority restricted. In fact, in areas where applied social science research could improve the coherence of domestic or foreign policy, the conditions of scholarship were often approved, so that...
...doctrine of progressive Islam, however, could well appeal to the apparently pragmatic Andropov, for it provides an ideological justification for a Soviet attempt to harness the anti-Americanism of resurgent Islam, and so subsume religious fundamentalism within the framework of East-West rivalry. Such a doctrine also creates intellectual justification for overt support of left wing Muslim fundamentalists, which groups have in the past received only covert assistance...
Occasionally, the enormity of these past 60 years has exploded the familiar framework of TIME. New headings forced themselves into the magazine to accommodate War or the Atom or Space, and the physical appearance of the magazine changed dramatically. Yet the structure always reasserted and reassembled itself, the department structure that is the organizing principle and essence of TIME. It is a form that not long ago some people proclaimed obsolete in a world of instant and random electronic communications. Yet in today's chaotic world a sense of order and organization seems more useful than ever...
James Michener should have heeded these words when writing Poland, A Novel. He places well-drawn sketches within an ingenious framework, but he uses the troubled country's political structure as an infrastructure, not just as an element. No episode develops completely and the characters are too obviously molded by their place in the overall design. The result lacks both credibility and human interest...
...reau's épater le bourgeois production eventually was seen as a bold, original interpretation that one could take or leave but not ignore, Hall's is something else again. It lacks precisely the quality that defined Chéreau's work: a conceptual framework...