This repressive Soviet policy reached its peak in 1949-1950. As a result, the most noted authors and artists were either outlawed or expelled from the Soviet Estonian Writers’ Association and the Soviet Estonian Artists’ Union (Friedebert Tuglas, Betti Alver, Johannes Semper3, Mait Metsanurk, Anton Starkopf, Ado Vabbe, Adamson-Eric among others). As for musicians Tuudur Vettik, Riho Päts (1899-1977) and Alfred Karindi (1901- 1960), a prominent choral composers and merited educationalist, were arrested and sent as bourgeois nationalists to a Siberian prison in March 1950. The Estonian Church was the only legal institution not directly subordinate to the Soviet regime. Through all hardships the Church remained a counterbalance to the communist ideology. The eminent theologian and linguist Uku Masing continued working, even though the Faculty of Theology of Tartu University was closed during
is my people who have allowed these buccaneers to come into Africa and given them whatever they want; I accuse my African-American brothers and sisters of marginalizing me, when in fact I have not reached out to them and sometimes have exhibited a rather superiority attitude towards them; and many a time, I have successively accused my own people of pulling me down, when all I am trying to do is to get more recognition, merited or unmerited. As I said earlier, I make no apologies to anyone. The only way the African race can regain their economic power is through recognizing the crimes they have committed against the race and accept the pain and punishment necessary to teach us a lesson that the time has come to stop our stupid indulgence. Today, the New York Taxi business is totally in the hands of Indians and their brothers from Pakistanis.
and she could not help remembering what Charlotte's opinion had always been. Neither could she deny the justice of his description of Jane. She felt that Jane's feelings, though fervent, were little displayed, and that there was a constant complacency in her air and manner not often united with great sensibility. When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach, her sense of shame was severe. The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial, and the circumstances to which he particularly alluded as having passed at the Netherfield ball, and as confirming all his first disapprobation, could not have made a stronger impression on his mind than on hers. The compliment to herself and her sister was not unfelt. It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had thus been self-attracted by the rest of her family;