I never knew Zamyatin wrote We in English.

Bobert, I don't know about "Everyman", Lewis's best-known novels were Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Main Street, and Elmer Gantry, as I recollect.

Much of what's going on in the name of freedom aka security is indeed the sort of stuff that we (USA kids) were taught was what made our system better than the Russians'. I remember when the conductor threatened to confiscate our Super-8 movie camera on the Trans-Siberian Railway (this was in 1968, the Brezhnev era). But he relented, and from then on we only filmed the other side of the view, the part we could see from our compartment, instead of filming from the corridor windows. Sheesh.

Haruo