Word: adamancy
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Sometimes a leader's pastimes imitate the way he governs. In his great biography of Stalin, Adam Ulam surmises that Stalin's sadism and recreation were allied. Stalin reveled in all-male, all-night banquets populated by middle-aged cronies drinking themselves witless and engaging in practical jokes. Among Stalin's favorites were placing a tomato on a chair about to be sat in and pushing friends into ponds. One can only imagine the hilarity and camaraderie at such occasions. One can also imagine the recognition on the faces of Stalin's former drinking buddies when...
...Haggerty has Brad Bunney, who went to the NCAAs last year. Cliff Sheehan, Bob Higgins, Eric Schuler and freshmen Paul Kent, all of whom can be shuffled to meet the fledgling coach's needs. Also, All-American Adam Dixon, who was injured almost all of last year, may return in February...
...scholars. Even after years of training, a Soviet specialist's job opportunities wax and wane with the climate of detente. The CIA today reports a shortage of Soviet experts, yet it let many go in the '70s. At Harvard's Russian Research Center, Director Adam Ulam is concerned about "the general dearth of specialists" as many of his senior faculty members approach retirement. The center operates on the same $175,000 annual budget that it had in the mid-1960s, which makes it increasingly difficult to fund major research projects. Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute...
...regional party committee membership. On his way up the bureaucratic ladder, he earned a degree in engineering. Somehow he escaped the great purges of 1937-38 that sent tens of thousands of party officials to their deaths. Whether he actively took part in those purges is unclear. Harvard Sovietologist Adam Ulam concludes that Brezhnev was "clever as well as lucky; at a time when people in the party hierarchy were being liquidated right and left, he not only survived but prospered...
Most experts agree that Andropov does not yet possess and may never achieve the power necessary to effect profound changes in the Soviet Union. It took several years before Khrushchev and Brezhnev were able to assert themselves as the Soviet Union's unchallenged leaders. Says Harvard's Adam Ulam: "The process of succession does not begin with the death of a leader, nor does it end with the designation of his successor...