Word: exaltedness
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Spassky's defeat was no national disaster for Russia; after all, chess is a game, not warfare. Still, it is fascinating to speculate about the geopolitical implications. If pure hearts no longer prevail, what then is the future of the Soviet communal ideal? Perhaps the senses should now be...
Soviet officials would prefer inquisitive foreigners to believe that the elaborate privacy is for the benefit of disabled war veterans and aged proletarians in nearby rest homes and hospitals. In fact, as every Muscovite knows, the fence hides a cluster of sumptuous villas belonging to the Kremlin elite. They are...
China has a sense of vitality that is not found in the Soviet Union. Russia, which I toured extensively as TIME'S Moscow correspondent from 1968 to 1970, is a classless society with a privileged elite. In China, by contrast, everyone is poor together. There are no private cars...
Shyre's adaptation and Whitmore's performance evoke Will Rogers clearly. Will was a child who exposed the exalted emperors of his time in all their embarrassing nakedness. His humor derived from his innocent exaggeration of the discrepancies between the grandiose pretentions of people and institutions and their imperfect realities...
Outside the Senate, other voices were being raised against the antibusing trend. United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock charged that Senators, Congressmen and even those "in more exalted political office" (meaning Nixon) were using the busing issue to "polarize races in the hope of selfish political gain." New York'...