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...never an¬ nounced), while the most peaceful forms of ideological, religious and national dissent are still punished by long terms at hard labor. The most compelling example: the Ukrainian nationalists in the Soviet Union. Unlike the Basque separatists in Spain, they call for nothing more radical than the wider use of the Ukrainian language in schools and other forms of cultural autonomy for their 48.5 million countrymen. For this, hundreds of Ukrainians in the past decade have been sentenced to terms of up to 14 years in camps or committed to prison lunatic asylums. Still, the names of Valentyn...
...people in Baltimore took this defeat much better than the people in Boston would have. Things are much more languid in Baltimore. The city itself is larger and more square, its streets are wider and more regular, and the stadium is bigger and more conventional. People in Baltimore do not take any one game as seriously as Boston fans; there is a sense of permanence and resilience about the Orioles in Baltimore that would be utterly lost to the torrent of flesh that anguishes its way down Brookline Avenue after a Red Sox loss. When the Orioles lose, the boulevard...
...fact that the Vladivostok agreement [signed by Ford and Brezhnev last year] seemed to legitimize multiple, independently targetable warheads [MIRVs] is also alarming. MIRVS, which are a new fashion in military rocketry, open up wider possibilities for the arms race and increase the danger of a so-called unstable situation, in which it would be strategically advantageous for either side to deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike. In the language of human beings, that would mean committing the greatest crime in history...
...have been through, a lot of people come home again to the fact that the churches and schools, the service clubs and lodge halls hold much of our society together. Jerry Ford's unabashed membership is a factor in his mounting popularity. His world is wider now, but he has not deserted the old haunts, geographically or intellectually...
...example: a sentence in The Painted Word mentioning that Franz Kline once painted such social-realist subjects as "unemployed Negroes, crippled war veterans and the ubiquitous workers with open blue workshirts and necks wider than their heads." Hughes says, "In fact, he never painted such pictures. Either Wolfe is making them up or he cannot distinguish between Franz Kline and Ben Shahn...