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...final years Einstein was an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, which he felt was an echo of the turbulent events that had preceded the downfall of Germany's Weimar Republic. He urged intellectuals to defy what he considered congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin." He was widely denounced, and Senator Joseph McCarthy called him "an enemy of America." In his last public act, Einstein joined Bertrand Russell and other scholars in a desperate plea for a ban on all warfare...
...Ramones, with their new album Road to Ruin, certainly reek of the back alleys and cheap drugs that keep them well on the punk side of the new wave. But if Vicious's last fling hides Road in the wreckage it will be quite a loss, for this latest release is the perfect album to let loose--loud--on your turntable for those moments when Fleetwood Mac just can't soothe your soul...
...surprising how little four months of strikes and almost complete economic denial have affected the majority of the population. Paradoxically, the poorest seemed to be faring the best, perhaps because of their access to community food cooperatives and neighborhood organizations. When asked about the 'economic ruin' of his country, Tehran's Ayatullah Taleghani replied firmly: 'We do not mind at all that the economy is destroyed. In the West, the economy is above freedom. Here, freedom is now above the economy. After 50 years of living under the boot and heel of imperialism, we have...
...into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother and then his father dying slowly of consumption. An orphan at eleven, the boy felt the full force of his father's "exalted and dreamy temperament" and never forgot what it brought: misery, ruin and death. The lesson later pervaded his fiction. Men with no illusions are base, but those who have them are destroyers...
...killed and mutilated by anti-Shah rioters. The army then displayed their bodies to other soldiers, who reportedly ran over demonstrators with tanks, shot wildly into the crowds and even attacked civilian hospitals. The demonstrators reduced the army PX, symbol of the military's privileged position, to a ruin, along with a local Pepsi-Cola bottling plant, delivery trucks, the Iran-American Society building and the home of the sole U.S. military adviser in the city. The adviser was not at home, but his Iranian guard was killed. The two days of rioting left 170 dead by the government...