Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern tragedy of the godless humanitarian.* His latest novel, The Age of Longing, makes it plain that Arthur Koestler is one of those unhappy intellectuals obviously in need of a moral and spiritual boss. When he forswore Communism, he was left spiritually homeless, stranded between the Yogi and the Commissar, and believing in neither...
Kingsley's N. S. Rubashov is, like Koestler's, a fallen intellectual commissar whose own harsh weapons have been turned against him. He will soon be shot, but, because of his importance, he must be made to confess his "crimes." He remains the old-line Bolshevik who does confess, who does die a Communist, though the Communism he dies...
...twelve-tone theories ("It's no different from boxing, except in the ring you count only to ten"), prefers to follow Moscow-dictated formulas for "non-decadent" music. The first and last movements of his Resistance Symphony were brash and hackneyed enough to please the most fastidious commissar. But in the soft-spoken second movement and the effervescent scherzo, Zafred's melodic sense and Latin high spirits almost rattled the composition off its one-track party line...
...crisis, in which our future freedom and freedom everywhere is at stake . . . There can be no question of choice between acceptance of limited governmental regulation and control-on a temporary basis-by honest-to-goodness Americans, and the possible alternative of permanent and absolute control administered by a Soviet Commissar...
...What kind of Christmas will you have?" he asked, less the self-righteous commissar and more the human being...