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...composers patriotically hymned Soviet heroes during World War II, and the good will they thus banked at the Kremlin gave them a brief period of postwar freedom. But by 1948, an iron hand had closed tightly around Soviet composers. The hand was that of Andrei Zhdanov, cat-cruel Politburo careerist whose ear for music had been destroyed long before by the din of dialectical crossfire. Zhdanov in effect put all Russian composers on trial, including the three modern giants-Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian. The charges: "formalism" (i.e., art for art's sake, individuality, experimentation) and lack...
Died. Mamoru Shigemitsu, 69, durable, one-legged (from a 1932 bomb- throwing) diplomat who signed Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the Missouri, served twice as Foreign Minister (1943-45, 1954-56); of a heart ailment; in Yugawara, Japan. Careerist Shigemitsu was an early advocate of expansion into China, but wanted no part of a war with Britain or the U.S. He had little to say in Japan's World War II government until 1943, when apprehensive Premier Tojo wanted a moderate Foreign Minister, gave him the post. Railroaded into the war crimes trials by the Soviets (who blamed...
Bonn: Scholarly, ex-Harvard President James B. Conant may be followed by the State Department's skilled careerist and longtime Ike friend. Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy...
...magnificent and profoundly true words" of contemporary Bolshevik leaders. A functionary in the Moscow Law School (though the record later dignified his jobs with grandiose titles), he was detested by the Old Bolshevik jurists. "I cannot stomach him," said Appellate Judge Galkin. "That man is simply a disgusting careerist." In the university he got to know a plump young party worker named Georgy Malenkov. Soon Andrei was made presiding judge at a trial of engineers charged with sabotaging Ukrainian coal mines. He helped work out the Soviet trial technique which he later, as State Prosecutor, employed with success against...
...Careerist. In Springfield, Ill., George M. Bradley admitted cashing a bad check to pay a lawyer defending him against a charge of passing bad checks...