Word: founder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration." (Music...
...nonbiblical scrolls, dating from the mid-2nd century B.C., it spells out disagreements over Jewish law, showing the thinking of the Dead Sea sect at an early stage before it broke with officialdom in Jerusalem. The author might have been the shadowy "Teacher of Righteousness," the sect's presumed founder...
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the one-party Soviet dictatorship, believed that anyone who disagreed with him was an enemy who had to be ruthlessly smashed. He would not have hesitated a moment before arresting the members of the Congress of People's Deputies who decided last week to form a legal opposition calling itself the Interregional Group. At a freewheeling conference in Moscow's House of Cinema, the new faction elected a collective leadership and adopted a platform that called for rewriting the Soviet Constitution to make the system safe for pluralism and basic civil rights. In a direct...
...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...
...Congress of People's Deputies, reformers take a historic stand against party rule, while scholars call into question the founder of the Soviet state. -- Denis Thatcher, the British Prime Minister's husband, keeps a stiff upper lip in public. -- Poland narrowly avoids political chaos again as the Communist's Czeslaw Kiszczak is chosen to be Prime Minister, while food prices soar...