Word: gorbachevized
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...evidence is everywere. Socialist governments are collapsing all across Eastern Europe. The Sandinistas have been voted out of power in Nicaragua. And Mikhail S. Gorbachev continues to dazzle the world with progressive reforms in the Soviet Union...
...whatever disagreements communists may have about Russian history or Marxist theory, and however differently they may view the recent mass demonstrations in Eastern Europe, they speak in unison on one salient subject: Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Gorbachev is just another ugly face. He is more objectionable than his predecessors, but like Khruschev and Brezhnev he is a traitor to the cause--a "revisionist...
...Moscow Conservatory's yellow-and-white Great Hall was packed with notables, ranging from Raisa Gorbachev to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, when Rostropovich came striding out on stage, threw kisses in all directions and then raised his arms to begin. He had chosen a program full of sad messages: first Samuel Barber's elegiac Adagio for Strings; then Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, which Rostropovich had performed at his last Moscow concert 16 years ago; then Shostakovich's anguished Fifth Symphony, written at the height of Stalin's purges in 1937. (In three subsequent concerts, two of them in Leningrad, Rostropovich would also...
...impassioned appeals for more emotion. The audience responded with a standing ovation, rhythmic clapping, showers of carnations. For his fourth encore, Rostropovich burst out with a rousing salute to his new homeland, John Philip Sousa's red, white and blue chestnut, Stars and Stripes Forever. The audience -- including Raisa Gorbachev -- gave one last standing ovation. At a reception afterward at the U.S. Ambassador's residence, Rostropovich greeted friends with kisses and bear hugs and vodka toasts. Asked how he had chosen Stars and Stripes Forever, he grinned and said, "From the heart...