Word: communists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking glass phenomenon has even reached us here at Harvard. The endowment is down and financial aid is up. Strangely, this year a global symbol of democratic hope, Nelson Mandela, was honored by the powers-that-be. At the same time, not a single Communist dictator has been seen gracing the stage of Sanders Theatre...
...Cold War was imbued in the whole communist system," Pipes said, arguing that it began not after World War II, but in 1917 after the success of the Russian Revolution...
...comes loud and clear," says Gaddis, "that there were great moral deficiencies in the Soviet empire." As for the portrayal of the U.S., there may be some lapses in perspective--in the episode on the McCarthy era, for example, it is unfortunate that the filmmakers found no honorable anti-communist to balance the comments made by those who were sympathetic to the party...
...stage. A scaled-down crew of about 10 people is gearing up for the shoot, with the episode currently scheduled to air during November sweeps. The story line revolves around a practical joke played on Carey that finds him waking up drunk, penniless and without his passport in the communist country, only to find salvation at--where else?--McDonald...
Harry Truman's last Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, drove conservative Republicans to spluttering fury. Joe McCarthy jeered at "this pompous diplomat in striped pants." Richard Nixon spoke of Acheson's "Cowardly College of Communist Containment." In retrospect, the abuse seems odd; Acheson proved a tough, decisive realist who welded together the alliance that successfully contained the Soviet bloc until it self-destructed in 1989. Acheson handsomely reproduces the postwar era, the rich supporting cast and a sometimes surprising protagonist who, for all his bespoke elegance and fop's mustache, knew how, occasionally, to throw a punch...