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...five years of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." On television last June, the widely revered Father Dmitri Dudko confessed to having slandered the Soviet system. The priest reportedly yielded to threats that all his parishioners would be arrested if he did not recant. Significantly, denunciations of Fa ther Yakunin in the Soviet press at the time of his trial prompted 250 people from all over the U.S.S.R. to apply for membership in his committee to defend the country's believers...
Maureen, now a tall, sturdy, handsome woman, ebullient but more than a touch wary, was seven when her parents were divorced. She lived with her mother, but remembers going riding on her fa ther's ranch and hearing him recite The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She jocularly refers to him as "Dear Old Dad." Like all the other Reagan children, she spent much of her youth in private boarding schools; like all of them, she dropped out of college (Marymount College of Virginia). She went to work as a Republican volunteer in Nixon's Washington campaign headquarters...
...anxiety to soften that bleak mes sage, Urban Cowboy tries to create a structure and an optimistic mood in a tale about people whose existences have nei ther structure nor much hope. What could have been a hard crust of contemporary life has become a soggy piece of chain-store white bread...
...cannot be sealed off like a medieval fortress at sun down. The Cubans who have come to the U.S. should be made welcome; but the U.S. must seek ways to discourage fur ther outpourings. The old promiscuous invitation of the land of the free must be muted somewhat. That is an idea that Americans as well as potential immigrants may find painful to accept: a nation that has always cherished a self-congratulatory illusion that it could be all things to all who appeared at the front door must now have the character to make the sort of serious choices...
...audience disperses, setting off for lunch or for another performance, where they will once again play spectators and scribes. The show completed, they will compare notes on this or that lecturer's ability to entertain, amuse, or inspire. They invariably pay attention to ther performer and not to the part: "He was better last time," some will say, or: "She was a little weak during the middle, but came on strong...