Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet. Stravinsky has not been back to his native Russia since 1914. He has no intention of going back and would not be welcome if he did. But he is Russian to his stubby fingertips, and so is his music. The Communists regard him as a decadent, God-loving capitalist who writes ugly music. Stravinsky's opinion of the Communists is just as brusque: he thinks they are ruining Russian music (including that of his old friend Sergei Prokofiev). Says Stravinsky: "I hate Soviet music...
...bright-eyed officer's son Vladimir Turukhin hopes to be a designer in a brave new world powered by atomic energy and free at last of all the bad habits of capitalist society. Teresa Kleinerman wants to devote her whole life to medicine and have enough left over to study a little singing...
...first Mars-bound ship. Vladimir will be one. "Before starting," he writes, "I peruse my diaries and see how happy were my years of study and research which led to this interplanetary trip. In our collective efforts, I never felt the loneliness experienced by scientists in capitalist countries...
...York and London, other Soviet youngsters had also received their marching orders. By keeping them in separate schools, the Soviet government had tried to insulate their innocents abroad from corrupt and corrupting Western ideas. Apparently Moscow now thought that the only place they would really be safe from capitalist contamination was back home...
...best U.S. newsmen) "unsurpassed." He even concedes that the big businessman's faith in free enterprise is shared by such a large number of lesser U.S. citizens that labor has not even been able to build a political party worth the name. Therefore a successful anti-capitalist revolt is impossible unless the U.S. businessman is willing to lend a hand in arranging his own execution...