Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communism & the Russian Character
A half century of constant exposure to propaganda and an enforced ignorance of the rest of the world have had their effect on Russia's citizens, but the Communists have succeeded neither in expunging nor in radically shifting their deep human character traits. The Communist regime has obviously convinced...
Still, Feuer, who recently spent half a year in Russia doing research, believes that another philosophy is struggling to emerge. Freed of the terror, encouraged by the thought that liberalization may continue, unburdened of at least some of the Marxist mythology, today's Russia is witnessing the gradual reassertion...
Died. Julien Duvivier, 71, French movie director; of an apparent heart attack; in Paris. A veteran of silent films, Duvivier first used a series of character-study vignettes in 1937's Carnet de Bal to illuminate the movie's main theme. Among his other remembrances: 1951's...
In its cruel ruse, the CIA's team of writers resorted even to such time-worn tricks as the formless plot, the dialect joke, and the late-President slur. But again the audience refused to see its vision dashed, and the intelligence men's most basic weapon--mimic ability--carried...