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...Organization in Trans-Caucasia. Largely through fictitious evidence it disputed Leon Trotsky's charge that Stalin never amounted to much as a pre-revolutionary theorist. Beria's Stalin is always right, always on the Leninist beam, always out in front of "the toiling masses." Why did this crass flattery matter to Stalin, who was already the world's most powerful autocrat? Precisely because the Communist regime had struck no real social roots, it attached fantastic importance to nuances of "theory." The Communist victory had been made by ideas in the heads of a handful of men, plus...
...ideological battle against Communism it is not enough to point to the crass corruptions of the original dream of justice which we see in the police states of Eastern Europe. It is more important to make our cause so just that it will win the allegiance not of the comfortable but of the insecure and the impoverished. It is particularly important that America, as the most powerful and wealthiest of the nations in the western world, should acquire a higher degree of humility. Without it we will insist upon political creeds and political reforms which Europe regards...
...extending into every phase of British life. Sports, food, clothing, politics, the Government's efforts in the economic crisis are all affected by the popular insistence that if anyone is to be miserable, everyone must be equally miserable. In a country where inequality has been and still is crass and pronounced, this is perhaps a natural tendency. But it is nonetheless inhibiting to national and individual effort, and it is already justifying and concealing innumerable small invasions of personal freedom. Britons have given up most of their economic freedoms and seem intent on abandoning the remainder as soon...
...building up to a lovemaking crisis and not letting it come off-as Hitchcock did in Notorious-Caniff has become the best tantalizer in the profession. It is the same heartless treatment that keeps housewives suffering daily with radio's Young Widder Brown, and it has the same crass commercial purpose. "It forces 'em to buy the paper," says Caniff, "to find out what the hell is going...
...Crass Coincidence. Back in his homeland, Indio shot up rapidly in Mexican movies, was soon a leading actor. From a friendly, peripatetic U.S. script writer, with whom he became buddies, Indio learned story technique. In time he became the country's leading director, turned out the enormously successful films that Dolores del Rio made in Mexico after leaving Hollywood. For three years, Indio and Dolores were always seen together. Now they are only socially polite...