Word: celling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev pulled the plug on Stalin last February. The workers, taught to regard pale ex-Miner Maurice Thorez as a French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though he had been kicked out of the party for criticizing its subservience to Russia. Would the party be forced to bend with the prevailing wind...
...interlopers. But in the course of three assaults, in which he enlists the help of an army of snakes and plunders a temple of its god, the sadhu only succeeds in strengthening his enemies and losing his otherworldliness. For two weeks he does penance, crouched in a cold stone cell where he can neither stand up nor lie down. There, "light and clear and unimpeded," he finds again the mystic way to bliss. When he emerges from his cell, he is his old serene self; he has learned not "to concern himself with what must be. The fate...
Only Communist Party members in Russia had been given an inkling of all this earlier. At cell and district meetings couriers from the Central Committee have appeared with a copy of the speech. Short excerpts have been read, which members have been warned not to write down, and the courier has then returned with his precious document. Gradually, from an initial sense of shock, party members have been brought to a state of high hope and expectancy for the future. Last week the Central Committee evidently thought that the time had come to extend its propaganda drive to take...
...members). He told the extraordinary meeting of the 110-man Central Committee that the word must be spread gently: Italian Reds would resent having been buggerato (hoodwinked). For the first time since his return from Moscow in 1944, Togliatti and the Soviet leadership are being criticized at cell meetings (and more openly over wine glasses at the corner trattoria after meetings...
...When the soul returned once more to the body, it was as if the jubilation of the whole world had been gathered together here." A onetime mayor of Leipzig, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, implicated in the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler's life, wrote in his death cell: "Christ...