Word: thrusting
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Words are all we have. They pillage or vivify mankind, thrust him into a million prisons, or urge his genius to touch just beyond its comfort. The condition of language at present may be compared, more or less unemotionally, to a stupefied, labyrinthine torture-house, which is nothing but unconnecting hallways, with only one way forward, the floor creeping with pursuant poison to the rear. Keep the words pure and the laws will be just, said Ezra Pound. It's an admonition, not a solution, The only way is poetry, for poets have less rubbish in their heads than other...
...down the U.S. in isolated instances abroad. Equally important, the U.S. may become more cautious about situations that could lead to a confrontation. With Soviet ships all over the Mediterranean, a U.S. landing in Lebanon of the 1958 variety would be virtually out of the question today. The main thrust of Soviet power, however, is almost certain to be toward undermining the confidence of U.S. allies in the value of American protection and to move into areas where the West's influence is either marginal or declining...
...Bolshevik seizure of power during the ten world-shaking days of October 1917 was "as easy as lifting a feather." Lenin and his ideas did not arouse the masses to overthrow an exploiting regime, as his early scenario had called for. Instead, he simply but effectively thrust himself into the vacuum of power that had been created by the disintegration of the Russian state and society. In the name of building socialism, he overthrew the "bourgeois" liberties that Russia had barely begun to enjoy, convinced that he knew what was best for the people. "The will of a class...
Much of the Jonus for the oppressive social and political atmosphere in the Soviet Union today must necessarily rest with Stalin's successors. It is true enough that Stalin bequeathed to them a government that was entirely undemocratic and totalitarian, and that an enormous anti-Stalinist thrust was needed to restore the country to its Leninist foundations. Yet, in the name of "de-Stalinization." these men only reinforced the bureaucratic machinery they inherited, and have actually spread inequality by the introduction of material incentives and profit motives into Soviet economic relations. As a result, the clique which rules Russia today...
...ravaged society will be saved only by concerted radical action directed at all portions of our exploited environment-the cities, the poverty, the wars, the hatred-that condemns us to lives of desperation. If the ecology movement can survive the strong pressures to emasculate its thrust, it can strike at the fragile materialist cooptation underpinning our wasteful industrial society. Otherwise, ecology as an issue will become a tool of the enemy...