Word: finding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disillusionment exposed by the June elections, Kiszczak's government may be nothing more than an interim administration. Though elections are four years off, it is quite possible that barring a coup or some other unconstitutional act, Poland could bury Communism within a year. Then -- ready or not -- Solidarity may find itself at the helm, hunting for a way out of Poland's economic morass...
...force of simple observation, uncomplicated inspiration, modest but authentic craftsmanship are sufficient to sustain both writer and reader. A life devoted to such work might not have inspired a biography as lively as this one. But it might have provided the truly exemplary qualities Shnayerson strains so hard to find...
...centuries -- was unexpected and dazzling. The Hebrew and Aramaic documents, written mostly on leather, were found in eleven caves along the northwest rim of the Dead Sea. Because of popular fascination over possible connections with Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls became the century's most fabled archaeological find...
American experts find such revisionism a dramatic development. With establishment journals publishing criticism of Lenin, says Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, "nothing about Communism is sacred any longer in the Soviet Union." Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, does not expect Lenin to go from icon to archvillain. "Lenin will be given an honorary place in Soviet history as the founder of the country," says he. "Yet, just as U.S. historians can show the warts of George Washington, Soviet historians will be able to do the same with Lenin...
...Cult of Lenin, is necessary if the Soviet Union is to right itself. "Lenin is being brought down to earth to make way for the new myths of perestroika," she says. If Gorbachev's political reform is more than a myth and the government is able to find its legitimacy in increased democracy, it might not need Lenin anymore...