Word: exhibitionisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overnight, on cue, critics in the Moscow press toned down their hitherto snide comments about the American exhibition, Pravda trotted out improbable quotes by metal workers and locksmiths applauding Eisenhower's invitation, and Americans in Moscow began getting telephone calls and visits from former Russian friends who had been...
"What a Man!" When the news of the fall of France reached Soustelle in Mexico in 1940. he thought of joining the British or Canadians. The British consul told him that a French general had turned up in London. "I didn't know anything about him. He could have...
The Blue Pencil. Almost from the start, the Soviet censors reneged on the government's promise to pass all copy unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was...
Russian TV viewers got a garbled version of the same dialogue. Many of Nixon's remarks were not translated at all; in Pravda the vice presidential contribution was cut to five sentences. Pravda edited Khrushchev too, but judiciously, e.g., his patently false boast that Russian workers could afford the...
Chattanooga ChooChoo. For the most part, the Russian press played the Nixon visit against a backdrop of stories highly critical of the U.S. exhibition ("What the Exhibition Conceals"), and others decrying U.S. unemployment and deficiencies in the U.S. medical profession. Nixon's speech opening the exhibition was carried in...