He is soon brought up on charges at his Party cell and slyly excoriated by a friend and comrade, Pavel. Is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky!''Ī boyish prank? An innocent joke? Not on Ludvik's life. Irritated with his politically orthodox girlfriend - the kind called ''goodthinkful'' in Orwell's Newspeak - Ludvik sends her a teasing postcard: ''Optimism In his ideological armor: He has a sense of humor. THE ever vigilant Party has already noted Ludvik Jahn's individualist deviations: ''You smile as though you were thinking to yourself.'' A student in Prague during the 1950's, Ludvik is a staunch Communist with but one chink Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy Irving Howe Irving Howe's ''A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography'' is being published this month. October 24, 1982, Sunday, Late City Final Edition The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
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