Word: monolithically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Solidarity is not a monolith, nor is it a creature of Walesa, though he is certainly its symbol and central force. Solidarity's 18-member leadership sprang directly from last summer's 21-day strike, and thus has a distinct Baltic coast flavor. Many are experienced labor activists who have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace...
...member of Warsaw's diplomatic corps. He translated T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg and wrote articles for the Polish press. But all was not well between the private and public man. Having escaped Hitler's oppression, Milosz now felt hemmed in by the Stalinist monolith. In 1951 he broke with the regime and became an exile in Paris. The reasons for his defection became clear two years later with the appearance of The Captive Mind: "The immediate cause of my break with the Polish People's Democracy was socialist realism. It would be wrong...
...Tuesday or Thursday afternoon in the fall, look instead to the action behind the Stadium. There, in the shadows of that aging, hulking monolith, as the days grow shorter and the nights colder, is real sport...
...your Fourth of July cover may infuriate some, it will delight millions who view it as a reminder that the same spirit which overthrew the Crown and blazed up in vain in 1861-65 burns today with increasing fierceness against a Federal Government that has swelled into a mountainous monolith of overbearing, overburdening bureaucratic tyranny...
...madhouses, this merely reflects the fact that art is not as forceful a channel for maverick ideas as literature. Nevertheless, state approval governs every aspect of the production, exhibition, sale and discussion of painting and sculpture. The essence of totalitarianism is that there must be no gaps in the monolith, nowhere for culture to create its models of dissent...