Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...
...familiar and crude census of the "gainfully occupied'' will be made more searching by a long list of questions: during the week of March 24-30 were you employed, if so was it with private industry or Government agency? If unemployed, since when? Were you seeking work? Have you had previous experience? Was your unemployment due to vacation, illness, or strike...
Charles Laughton's expert mugging, the acting of Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Walter Hampden, and a host of new and pretty faces don't redeem the crude bungling of the psychological plot at the hands of the Hollywood hair raisers. Confidentially, it's only fair...
Probably the most debated point in postwar Soviet history was the "last testament" supposedly left by Lenin. Most salient point in the alleged document was a proposal to get rid of Stalin "because he is too crude." Stalinists have long denied its genuineness; best Trotskyist argument is that Stalin once quoted it and that Stalin once admitted: "Yes, I am rough, rough on those who roughly and faithlessly try to destroy the 'Communist Party...