Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief propagandist and heaped praise on his boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression, and his 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave the new literary movement its name. In his Memoirs, which have been running, off and on, in the Soviet press since 1960, he has tried to present an unbiased picture of the recent Russian past. It is a gallant and encouraging...
...political science course on political parties and pressure groups taught by a man who should know: Robert Horgan, a Ph.D. from Notre Dame who is also mayor of Dubuque. Twelve hours of philosophy and 14 hours of theology are required, but the academic atmosphere is far from rigid. "A freer academic atmosphere is opening up," says Edmund Demers, a lay member of the faculty. "In the old days, Catholic schools were more concerned with virtue than intellectual achievement. We're still concerned with virtue, but we see college as an intellectual unfolding." A philosophy student says that the most...
...that GATT. Failure of the U.N. conference to produce a quick cure for trade deficits only strengthened the 62-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the single permanent machinery for lowering barriers and expanding trade. GATT carries the hopes of industrial nations for freer trade, but is by no means ignoring less developed ones. In the continuing "Kennedy Round" of negotiations, GATT ministers aim for 50% across-the-board tariff cuts that would be extended to underdeveloped countries on a nonreciprocal basis...
...should be saddened to be deprived of it as a document" of the eighteenth century "battle between a restricted Puritan ethic and a freer, more generous attitude toward life," he said...
Back home, on the chilly banks of the Neva in Leningrad, plenty of bodies were uncovered as swarms of pale, fleshy Russians looked for a place in the thin spring sun, the very image of a people who want the better, freer-and more stylish-life Khrushchev promises. Sounding downright capitalistic, Izvestia launched a new plan to bring about this longed-for prosperity; it suggested putting a traditional Russian drink known as kvas on the world mar ket to compete with Coca-Cola...