I had basically left - wing sympathies but, I don't know, as someone
said about communism: great idea, wrong species!
Not exact matches
Many had
said that
communism lacked popular support; few realized what pent - up resentment would boil forth once people were free to speak
about the tyranny of the past half - century and more.
Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think
about communism, although Reagan often
said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»
To
say that God is the Lord when Sennacherib is
about to enslave you and put out your eyes is to
say something of real significance; Similarly today, we have to ask whether technics, happiness, the state, money, or
communism (our modern Sennacheribs) must be called the Lord or (there can be no question of an «and») whether Jesus Christ is Lord.
They could never show and tell how the humanistic artist could still admire Stalin's brand of brutality and
communism (which she did even though the film tries to smooth that over by never
saying an ill word
about its untouchable heroine), and it also failed to show how Frida's work captured the universal loneliness and pain she was suffering from.
Wunderman goes where few writers have dared in exploring the difficult subjects of
communism and atheism (as she
says in her interview at BookBrowse she didn't set out to write
about these subjects per se but wanted her characters to be truly shunned by the community without making them perverts or criminals).