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| 43941d3 | Until 1957 the West German Ministry of the Interior banned any screenings of Wolfgang Staudte's (East German) film of Heinrich Mann's Der Untertan ('Man of Straw', 1951)--objecting to its suggestion that authoritarianism in Germany had deep historical roots. This might seem to confirm the view that post-war Germany was suffering from a massive dose of collective amnesia; but the reality was more complex. Germans did not so much forget as se.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 9c34610 | The Socialist social contract was tartly summed up in the popular joke: 'you pretend to work, we pretend to pay you'. Many workers, especially the less-skilled, had a stake in these arrangements, which--in return for political quiescence--offered social security and a low level of pressure at the workplace. As East Germany's official Small Political Dictionary put it, with unintended irony, 'in socialism, the contradiction between work and .. | Tony Judt | ||
| 07bfbd1 | Eastern Europe--from the Austrian border to the Ural Mountains, from Tallinn to Tirana--doesn't fit. Its post-war decades were certainly peaceful when contrasted with what went before, but only thanks to the uninvited presence of the Red Army: it was the peace of the prison-yard, enforced by the tank. And if the satellite countries of the Soviet bloc engaged in international cooperation superficially comparable to developments further west,.. | Tony Judt | ||
| e68f8e5 | And yet, for all its faults as a system of indirect government, the Union has certain interesting and original attributes. Decisions and laws may be passed at a trans-governmental level, but they are implemented by and through national authorities. Everything has to be undertaken by agreement, since there are no instruments of coercion: no EU tax collectors, no EU policemen. The European Union thus represents an unusual compromise: internat.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 0583ed4 | The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe's vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europeans themselves. With the exceptions of the Germans, the nation most directly affected by the division of Europe but also ill-placed to voice displeasure at it, western Europeans were largely indifferent to the disappearance of eastern Europe. I.. | european-history | Tony Judt | |
| 23728b9 | As Boris Yeltsin was to acknowledge many years later, in a speech to the Hungarian Parliament on November 11th 1992, 'The tragedy of 1956 . . . will forever remain an indelible spot on the Soviet regime.' But that was nothing when compared with the cost the Soviets had imposed on their victims. Thirty-three years later, on June 16th 1989, in a Budapest celebrating its transition to freedom, hundreds of thousands of Hungarians took part in a.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 5edd137 | triple evils of modernity: Nazism, Communism and 'Americanism'. | Tony Judt | ||
| 2e46636 | Romanians, however, paid a terrible price for Ceausescu's privileged status. In 1966, to increase the population--a traditional 'Romanianist' obsession--he prohibited abortion for women under forty with fewer than four children (in 1986 the age barrier was raised to forty-five). In 1984 the minimum marriage age for women was reduced to fifteen. Compulsory monthly medical examinations for all women of childbearing age were introduced to prev.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 7948d1d | Never will I be satisfied until God works in convicting power and men and women weep their way to the cross. . . . Oh that He would break me down and cause me to weep for the salvation of souls. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| c894636 | Great awakenings did not happen because of the crowds but the committed few. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| bfdc321 | I believe student ministry needs reformation, not annihilation. I also believe the system currently in operation in many churches -- more pizza parties than theological passion and more games than gospel -- must be changed. | Alvin L Reid | ||
| c99618f | He is searching for an answer for which no question exists. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 1182284 | the buoyancy of chiliasts | Frank Kermode | ||
| 3bc0b99 | Having compared the novel-reader with an infant and a primitive, one can go further and call him a psychopath; and this I shall shortly be doing. | Frank Kermode | ||
| f782c49 | No, no," Arnie says. "Fondle--fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung..." "Farflung is Yiddish." "No," Arnie says, "it's not." | Nathan Englander | ||
| 0ca21e1 | You rented an apartment with its own escape route?" "I did," Z says. "It's not so paranoid when you use it to do just that." | Nathan Englander | ||
| 648e758 | Covjekovo pravo bice pokazuje se u tri slucaja. Kad je posrijedi novac, kad govori u srdzbi i kad je pijan. | Nathan Englander | ||
| edfe58c | Elke zomer worden de oude mensen kleiner terwijl de kinderen groter worden. Volgens Josh is er maar een bepaalde lengte beschikbaar op aarde en verwisselen de centimeters alleen van eigenaar. | lengte ouderen | Nathan Englander | |
| 87a2623 | If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8 block somewhere, he guessed, just outside Tel Aviv. If he'd had an inkling in that breezy French apartment of what true boredom felt like and true loneliness, and true limbo - what it might actually be like to be locked up, hidden away without hope. If he'd tasted real madness at that point, he'd not have decided that he was so bored and .. | Nathan Englander | ||
| 389668d | There were new words for everything in their dead language put back to use. New words for the jets and their radar systems. New words for the tanks and the radios inside. But for this, for the hammer and beat of the forge, the Bible still sufficed. | Nathan Englander | ||
| ba0304a | And we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do. | Nathan Englander | ||
| f245731 | These are hopeful stories from hopeless times. Without them the grief of this nation would tip it into the sea. | Nathan Englander | ||
| 73d8c17 | He was surprised, as always, to witness a new degradation, to find another display of wretchedness original enough to bring tears to his eyes. He took a deep breath and ignored the sense of injustice, a rich man's emotion, a feeling Mendel had given up the liberty of experiencing horrors and horrors before. | Nathan Englander | ||
| 1dae4af | Jurgis stood upright; trembling with passion, his hands clenched and his arms upraised, his whole soul ablaze with hatred and defiance. Ten thousand curses upon them and their law! Their justice--it was a lie, it was a lie, a hideous, brutal lie, a thing too black and hateful for any world but a world of nightmares. It was a sham and a loathsome mockery. There was no justice, there was no right, anywhere in it--it was only force, it was tyr.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 9e5fb9c | he had no affection left in his life--only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie of vice. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 024b64a | but he had been round the world enough to know that a man has to shift for himself in it, and that if he gets the worst of it, there is nobody to listen to him holler. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 57b9393 | Fascism is a marriage between corporations and the government. Upton Sinclair defined it as capitalism plus murder, | Glen Yeadon | ||
| 51eae0f | And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests--and so perfectly within their rights! | Upton Sinclair | ||
| cf384bd | He is playing a bass part upon his cello, and so the excitement is nothing to him; no matter what happens in the treble, it is his task to saw out one long-drawn and lugubrious note after another, from four o'clock in the afternoon until nearly the same hour next morning, for his third of the total income of one dollar per hour. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 49f5250 | One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe. Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a separate creature. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 0f4eae3 | since I really had no knowledge of American literature. Here and there, I had read a book by Upton Sinclair or Jack London or Sinclair Lewis. Here I was among all top American students, the only foreigner. I had to catch up so much, that by the time the written exam approached, I read a book daily. I completed the master's in three semesters, from February 1948 to June 1949. During the summer months of 1949, I wrote the thesis, which was ac.. | Pearl Fichman | ||
| 46a2717 | holidays---such as Columbus Day--to be celebrated by all Protestants in America; thirty million dollars worth of church property exempted from taxation in New | Upton Sinclair | ||
| cd50ad1 | the state of California; state support for parish schools--or, if this cannot be had, exemption | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 1930772 | He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago--after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| ab45688 | And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy. The officials who ruled it, and got all the graft, had to be elected first; and so there were two rival sets of grafters, known as political parties, and the one got the office which bought the most votes. Now | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 7ab962e | it. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 7c0c350 | The veselija has come down to them from a far-off time; and the meaning of it was that one might dwell within the cave and gaze upon shadows, provided only that once in his lifetime he could break his chains, and feel his wings, and behold the sun; provided that once in his lifetime he might testify to the fact that life, with all its cares and its terrors, is no such great thing after all, but merely a bubble upon the surface of a river, a.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 29523da | it was quite uncanny to watch them, pressing on to their fate, all unsuspicious a very river of death. Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 81a20c4 | universe to be questioned or understood. All that a mere man could do, it seemed to Jurgis, was to take a thing like this as he found it, and do as he was told; to be given a place in it and a share in its wonderful activities was a blessing to be grateful for, as one was grateful for the sunshine and the rain. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 5841113 | Jurgis had come there, and thought he was going to make himself useful, and rise and become a skilled man; but he would soon find out his error--for nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule--if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 716b399 | the man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work--why, they would "speed him up" till they had worn him out, and then they would throw him into the gutter." | Upton Sinclair | ||
| c0b5f5d | What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich? | Upton Sinclair | ||
| fb14339 | Among the people Jurgis lived with now money was valued according to an entirely different standard from that of the people of Packingtown; yet, strange as it may seem, he did a great deal less drinking than he had as a workingman. He had not the same provocations of exhaustion and hopelessness; he had now something to work for, to struggle for. He soon found that if he kept his wits about him, he would come upon new opportunities; and bein.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| c7935bf | They had always been accustomed to eat a great deal of smoked sausage, and how could they know that what they bought in America was not the same--that its color was made by chemicals, and its smoky flavor by more chemicals, and that it was full of "potato flour" besides? Potato flour is the waste of potato after the starch and alcohol have been extracted; it has no more food value than so much wood, and as its use as a food adulterant is a .. | Upton Sinclair |