Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings in Moscow alone, the new Soviet masters set about the awesome task of re-educating Russia to the new party line against the "cult of the individual." Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and other top figures were detailed off to explain to crowds of Moscow factory workers that the leader whom the speakers themselves had slavishly praised and served had really been a murderous megalomaniac. Some 15,000 agitators fanned out through Stalin's homeland of Georgia, where, as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan admitted last week, "some people" had "taken it hard" (TIME, March...
Switches & Splits. The confessions of truckling cowardice that were implicit in the new Khrushchev-Molotov-Bulganin line might do for the inner Kremlin gang. But it was not so easy for Communist leaders outside Russia to explain their own participation in the great deceit. The debunking of Stalin hit world Communists with a deeper shock than anything since Stalin's 1939 pact with Hitler. In what may be the first of many satellite reverberations, the boss of Hungary's Communist Party has admitted that his regime sent five top Reds wrongly to death in 1949 (see below...
...trouble? "All the Euro peans-they like that Flying Home. Sometimes I play it about twelve times in one night. There's a big epidemic going on over here for our jazz. They go for our heavy beat. It's just an epidemic. You can't explain it. Every night it's the same thing. Of course Amsterdam was the only place I got arrested...
...detail; in one play a needed road is stalled in red tape, in the other it is a needed schoolhouse; in one, an engaging young native sage holds forth, in the other it is an engaging young native duffer. But the difference between the two plays' titles helps explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from beginning to end, the portrait of a happy-go-unlucky man, the saga of a culturally displaced person. A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy, it is all the sadder for involving no villains, no clash...
Compounding his problems, Richer, as a disciplinary measure, denied one of his students permission to attend a released-time religion class, thus antagonizing the local Roman Catholic priest. Later he called on the priest to explain that he had not realized that the religion period was mandatory, but made it clear in passing that he was opposed to the released-time idea anyway...