Word: dialecticians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heir apparent. Theorist and dogmatist of the party and, like Stalin and Malenkov in Russia, the one who controls its elaborate apparatus. He was practically unknown outside the party a decade ago; his first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that, when they meet with Liu, "it is like throwing together a heap of steel slabs." Characteristics: gaunt and tall, with sharp features and piercing eyes; rarely smiles, has what...
Eisler was at least a top party dialectician, and Harvard survived. Now the students refuse to expose themselves to second-rate actors and third-rate novelists. What am I to say to my friends in New Haven, who took Howard Fast a year ago without scuttling and running, when they ask what is frightening the students at Cambridge...
...Dialectician. In London, the Times's Personal column carried this ad: "Tutor with Scottish accent urgently required for intelligent parrot. Telephone Chancery...
...occupational hazard in the life of the Communist dialectician is the party line itself; he never knows when it will be changed without notice. Four months ago Ai Tze-chi was Red China's chief indoctrinator or, as he was generally called, Brainwasher No. 1. In his bimonthly magazine Hsueh Hsi, Ai laid down the party line for all & sundry. Only China's academicians escaped his venom. That was because Ai had a soft spot for them: "China's higher intellectuals, while not yet fully wholesome . . . still can be considered to contain progressive and active elements...