Word: communist
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...usual, the dramatic gestures and splashy headlines (ARSENIC AND OLD LUCE) obscured many of her more significant achievements in Rome. By the time she left, Luce had played an important role in persuading Italian businessmen to fight Communist labor domination; had helped resolve a decades-old dispute with the signing by Italy and Yugoslavia of the Trieste settlement in 1954; and had seen Italy join the United Nations. Luce's predecessor had been recognized by exactly 2% of the Italian population; "La Luce" was known...
...before taking on the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Gore has at least 14 more debates to go with his fellow Democrats, followed by what could be a donnybrook of a convention in Atlanta. Last week he was working his way through the South, heading from there to New Hampshire. Then on to Iowa, where he hopes to find the crowds warmed up by -- who else? -- his father. Albert Sr. has been vigorously campaigning there as a surrogate for his son. By this week he will have hit all 99 counties in the state, giving...
...trouble in Lhasa could hardly have come at a more awkward time for the Chinese leadership. Later this month the policies of Party Leader Deng Xiaoping will be reviewed at the 13th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Inevitably, the rioting in Tibet will strengthen the hand of critics who oppose Deng's liberalization efforts and believe the country has moved too quickly toward reform...
With sharp visual images, von Trotta brings the complex character of Luxemburg closer to the audience. Numerous close-ups establish the communist radical as a figure worthy of sympathy. but these are not the soft focus, flattering close-ups of a romantic film. They are hard and lucid glances, sharp swords of realism which dispel the aura of godliness the film's plot gives Luxemburg...
Even on its own terms, Daniel's list provokes challenges. How is it possible in evaluating the political turmoils of this century to omit the Chinese Communist revolution, which is not only the major event in the lives of one-third of the earth's inhabitants but also the first such revolution among the world's nonwhite peoples? And how is it possible to omit the Holocaust, which not only led to the state of Israel and thus to the modern Middle East, which not only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world...