Word: communistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen him, much less sat down for an interview. Nevertheless, for this week's cover story on the death of Ho and the new era that begins in North Viet Nam, our Hanoi watchers around the world were able to piece together a detailed picture of the complex Communist leader and Vietnamese nationalist...
...reportage for our fourth Ho cover turned up another bit of intelligence that holds particular interest for us. Whenever Ho was in Kunming during World War II, he visited the U.S. Office of War Information. His request: TIME, the Weekly News magazine. Later from Communist sources, we heard that he was especially pleased by our first cover portrait, by Boris Chaliapin, which depicted him as a lean and hot-eyed fanatic - quite unlike the benevolent fatherly image projected by Hanoi...
...MINH held on to his little mysteries very skillfully indeed, and to much larger ones as well. The face that he presented to the world was that of an avuncular, slightly shabby poet, yet he was a dedicated, often ruthless Communist for half a century. He impressed most visitors with his gentleness, but no man can hold together a Communist Party for nearly 40 years, as he did, without an iron hand. He seemed fragile as a dried leaf, but he endured privation, prison and grueling pressures, and still survived for nearly eight decades...
Except in Russia and East Germany, Westerners may travel freely throughout Communist Europe. If they trouble to stray outside the tourist reservations, they meet with a warmth and welcoming generosity that is unmatched anywhere in the world. In the countryside, peasants offer to share their meal and provide a place to spend the night. This innocent unworldliness, one of the redeeming features of peoples living under Communism, is as yet unspoiled by the worst aspects of Western culture now being imported for the sake of hard currency. As a tourist attraction, it beats striptease and roulette and is surely...
...reason for his expansive mood is that he is really writing a love letter to Bahia. Formerly an earnest Communist, he turned out several stark novels (sample title: Sweat). Gabriela marked an abrupt mellowing in Amado's outlook. Now he romanticizes his Bahians into virile lovers, darkly sensual morenas, whores and neighbors, all larger than life. According to rumor, Dona Flor's friends are not the Bahian poor, but Amado's own circle of artists and intellectuals, whom he has costumed as peasants for a literary romp à clé. To that degree, Dona Flor...