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...R - until 1971. Ukraine was nominally independent even during the heyday of the Soviet Union. It maintained its own delegation to the United Nat... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...rthday. The year after, he relocated permanently to Russia. In 1938, certain senior Soviet figures - like Nikolai Bukharin and Genrikh Yagoda - wer... ...o (1898-1976) was an agronomist. During the reign of Lenin and Stalin years in the Soviet Union, he became the chief proponent of the work of the ... ...ck and the desire to further stretch it. A species with long necks was born. The Soviet leadership sought an indigenous theory to counter the "ca... ...Geneticists who opposed Lysenkoism were dispatched to the gulag as "enemies of the Soviet people". Most confessed to their "errors" in propounding ...
...gh school graduates. It struck me over the years of visiting the former Soviet Union that little old ladies were given jobs sweeping the streets w... ... of a society-based modern utopia. Communistic socialism was tried by the Soviet Union, China and a few other countries. But it was never successful... ...n regimes have to have plans that are good for the society. The Communist Soviet Union didn‟t have a workable plan. The Chinese Communists did, at l... ...ry, the right to marry and found a family, and other such rights. But the writers of the document put some boundaries on these rights. Military serv... ...tion for a crime, according to Article 5, or in the armed services. So the writers didn‟t allow individuals the rights to do anything they wanted if ... ...ldren and youth when they are not in school. We copied something from the Soviet society. They built Young Pioneer Palaces. The Young Pioneers were t... ..., dance, and scores of other pastimes. We think it was the best thing the Soviets did. We are ecstatic with our copying of a great idea. ETHICS ... ...films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on writers with little imagination. Crash cars, yell „kill the cops‟, shoot p... ...venture stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so much easier for writers to create excitement through car crashes and shooting or fighting ...
...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ...s have experienced more recent wars on their own soil—WW 1, WW 2, and the Soviet takeovers, so that they don‘t have the feeling of a merciful Christi... ...rrupt your line of thought, my father told me that in 1962 he visited the Soviet Union with a youth hostel group. Some in the group knew about the Mu... ...to work you would have to have a truly loving and selfless community. The Soviet socialism broke down because the people were selfish, as nearly eve... ...y or equality may be provable. Was the more equalitarian Marxist-Leninist Soviet Union more successful than the societies that allowed more freedom,... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar... ...on for more and better of everything?‖ 129 ---―The Communist Soviet Union, in spite of harsh penalties against it, had a huge black mar... ...tually they were written. Some people question whether God chose the best writers for his revelations. Perhaps Sophocles, or if we wanted more humor...
...ature, that he was alone and just did not bear solitude. The professional writers know this type of letter. At first I’d had a reflex of restraint, ... ... nor desperation. It is a protestation against the sale of the art. You writers, do you sell your sentiments? Do you create gifts for money? Not ... ...saic/poetical experience. Let us remember, in this field, among the prose writers, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Marques, Toni Morrison.... ... the absurd semantic plurality of offices - “an American chansonnette with Soviet accents”, the play on rhyme - “a situation with menstruation”, the ... ...s letter - as it happens in the very succulent Theater section, with known writers appearing as characters and a parody reaching really paradoxist per... ...n 1996 he had already found that “I have come into contact with different writers from all continents, especially through the Paradoxist Literary Mo...
...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...e race to outer space with its launch of Sputnik, followed closely by the Soviet‘s first intercontinental ballistic missile test. President Eisenhow...
...products in this book. Under the rubric "characteristics of innovations," several writers have isolated and discussed attributes possessed by ideas... ... marketing seems to have earned for itself two different definitions (Luck 1974). Writers have applied the expression in one sense to mean the socia... ...sing on environmental conservation factors is that of Perry (1976). However, most writers agree with Takas (1974) who applies the expression societa... ...tation of mass media campaigns with interpersonal word-of-mouth promotion. In the Soviet Union, "Red corners," "reading huts," and "listening statio... ...ongevity and having enough children to provide security in later years. Several writers have focused on pros and cons of fear appeals in messages ... ...s person's retaining knowledge of the product is increased" (p. 10). But these writers made no attempt to relate consumer characteristics with su...
...ew himself) government and in the Lenin and early Stalin administrations. When the Soviet Union crumbled, Jews again benefited mightily. Three qua... ... new denizens, thoroughly demoralized, impoverished, and criminalized by decades of Soviet repression? How likely are these tensions to lead not onl... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ...ces that Lasch warned against… in capitalism. It is in the countries of the former Soviet Bloc, that social solidarity has evaporated, that traditi... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c... ...n. It served as a magnificent tool for the suppression of dissidence in places like Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Mostly, it tends to breed "vict... ...posed by the nuclear-armed, hostile and expansionist U.S.S.R. The implosion of the Soviet Bloc rendered the "West" an obsolete, meaningless, and cu...
...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer... ...e a societal hypothesis! ―At the bottom of the happiness scales we have such countries as Zimbabwe, Congo and Burundi and the former Soviet...
...mic powers of the East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union and China. "The whole f-- world is West," thought Gabriele. ... ...to interpolate such ideas, he told himself, he would be like all those other writers who took pride in writing their salacious pieces. From the point... ...?" he asked again. "When Russia becomes a member of NATO or returns into the Soviet Union." "Why don't you stay?" "Why? It is a loaded question. Why?"... ...as a bit of vermilion, a color that may or may not have been that of the old Soviet flag, now fading from collective memory, but was the color of the ...
...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ... Written scripts that have been worked on and crafted and polished by the best writers in the world… who try to make their fictitious lies, these fic... ...is happiness? Happiness compared to what? In what context? Happiness in a Soviet slave-labor camps once was getting a little extra meat in your g... ...fat. Stalin dined in supreme fattened comfort; while his entire emaciated Soviet Empire of 350 million terrified humble slaves starved. Mao din... ...ing, and after the 2nd World War in Russia, then known as the USSR ( Union of Soviet Socialist Republics): Stalin’s ‘Gulag’ of concentration camps... ...illing as they have been, and still are about Hitler’s Nazi regime? No. The Soviet concentration camps were never filmed. No TV cameras ever cove... ... succumbed to a level of corruption reminiscent of the fight for power in the Soviet Union after Lenin was killed. He was healthy as a horse, and w...
..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i... ...h their cigarettes and elf- ish knowledge. When they were most eager about soviets or canoeing, she listened, longed to have some special learning whi...
...nternal and external threats; but because NORAD was created to counter the Soviet threat, it came to define its job as defending against external atta... ... to define its job as defending against external attacks. 96 The threat of Soviet bombers diminished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the numb... ...been preparing in Somalia for another long struggle, like that against the Soviets in Afghanistan, but “the United States rushed out of Somalia in sha... ...e United States rushed out of Somalia in shame and dis- grace.” Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of de... ...xperience for Islamic militancy in the 1980s: the Afghan jihad against the Soviet occupation. By 1998, Bin Ladin had a distinctive appeal, as he focus... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa...
...he Armies and Navy of the United States. If the opinion of the most approved writers upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is t... ...the world who scorn our vision of human dignity and freedom. One nation, the Soviet Union, has conducted the great est military buildup in the histor... ...uce the need for it. And this we are trying to do in negotia tions with the Soviet Union. We are not just discussing limits on a further increase of ... ... of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. Now, for decades, we and the Soviets have lived un der the threat of mutual assured destruction; if e... ...ls of Earth. It would render nuclear weapons obsolete. We will meet with the Soviets, hoping that we can agree on a way to rid the world of the threat... ...the world strong, ever strong, we will con tinue the new closeness with the Soviet Union, consis tent both with our security and with progress. One ...
...ity, during the fall semester of 2000, and the essays appear here with the writers express written permission. No portion of Best of Four may be repr... ...whom believed it was impor- tant to publish the best work of undergraduate writers so that students could have a better sense of what it meant to have... ...uld have a better sense of what it meant to have an audience. We knew that writers become better writers when they strive to publish their work. We al... ...e to know. All along, it has been our intention to broaden the base of our writers from English 4 to include the work of students in English 15 and En... ...r him giving me two packs of bubble gum, which back then were not found in Soviet stores, as well as other “foreign” gifts. We had many relatives and ... ...tructor: The Good Life 16 Freshness of Language One of our jobs as college writers is to avoid the clichéd use of language. Does this writer do that? ...
...opinion is part of the whole evolution’. “By the co-operation of different writers in carrying out this plan it was hoped that a thoroughness and comp... ..., otherwise unattainable, might be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philoso... ...ork of a high order was being produced both in England and America by such writers as Bra- 5 The Analysis of Mind dley, Stout, Bertrand Russell, Bald... ...xpressed by Brentano has been held very gener- ally, and developed by many writers. Among these we may 12 Bertrand Russell take as an example his Aus... ...u- dition; and political discourses, when we are engaged in show- ing what Soviet government leads to. In all these cases bodily movements (writing or...