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...reflexes. Solzhenitsyn, however, fought the Nazis for four years. He has endured slave camps and near death from cancer. His experiences seem to have produced a strong belief in the existence of an inextinguishable sense of justice in human society and-despite the power and prevalence of evil-a spark of absolute conscience in the individual. To survive as human beings, his characters make use of such old-fashioned virtues as bravery, loyalty and total truthfulness...
...overall image was that of a man still searching for a consistent theme, striking a spark here, but turning weary at the lack of response there. He attacked forcefully one moment, appeared overly defensive the next. McGovern was sharp on economic issues, slashing at the inflation under the Nixon Administration. "The Nixon inflation is ground into every pound of hamburger you buy," he cried...
...idea was to spark a boycott of iceberg lettuce-the kind that looks like a head of cabbage-in support of Cesar Chavez's two-year-old strike against growers in California. Chavez, grateful for the Democratic boost, believes that the boycott is beginning to take hold and in fact is doing as well as the grape boycott did at a comparable time in its history. But the evidence is not so reassuring. For a while after the convention, many sympathizers gave up lettuce. The growers were shipping only 300,000 cartons a day out of Salinas Valley instead...
...spark that touched off this semester's controversy was the discovery in January that HSA would receive funds from a benefit showing of the movie Dealing. HSA agreed to participate despite its attorney's advice to the contrary, and despite the fact that Phillips Brooks House. The Crimson, and the Alumni Office had refused. The Sack Theatre promoters billed HSA as a group that would use the money for student financial aid. This claim, of course, called into question whether financial aid students were receiving the bulk of HSA jobs. And nobody, from administrators in Holyoke Center to the student...
...Until the announcement of Senator Eagleton's "stepping down" [Aug. 14], I thought George McGovern was the hope for our political system, a spark that would renew our faith in the possibilities of the political process...