Word: deviationism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For Shostakovich it was a second fiery purification. In 1936, his clangorous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Stalin's ever-pricked ears, and the Pravda denunciation that followed kept Shostakovich under a cloud for five years. But this time the guilty composers did not need to suffer so prolonged...
Despite Dior's deviation, other Paris dressmakers grimly carried on the New Look's long skirts, pinched waists, and other handicaps to normal activity. Example: heavy "riding habit" skirts that weigh six pounds. The hobble skirt was everywhere, usually split to the knee to leave the wearers some...
*Among Bolsheviks, a danger-laden deviation. Lenin said: "Pacifism is ... Popish sentimentality."
He doubts the complete freedom of the U.S. press, points out that it takes $10 million to start a newspaper in a big city and $1 million in a middle-sized city. Reporter Liebling's solutions (which all call for big money, too): 1) newspapers backed by labor unions...
These words, of course, had a good deal of Stalin's "wooden iron" in them. That Communist parties in various countries have been quite effectively connected was proved when French Communist Jacques Duclos fired U.S. Communist Earl Browder by writing an unfriendly article about him in Cahiers du Communisme...