Word: goulash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, Soviet Communism in the 1960s has mellowed considerably as its leaders have discovered that goulash is more palatable than gunpowder. Under Khrushchev and his successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the old, unbending creed of unconditional war against capitalism has yielded to the cautious dialogue of coexistence. It has had to, for the workers of the industrialized world today are not likely to be inveigled into violent assault on social systems that have given them so large a measure of prosperity...
...somewhat different chain of restaurants. Its 83 cafeterias, drive-ins and pancake houses in eight states lean heavily on self-service eateries in poor locations, offer such dishes as hash and an egg for 65?. Last week, in a deal that will produce an unusual corporate goulash, the two chains announced plans to merge...
...statistics that simply appeared-six months later-in Moscow book stores. But if the style in Moscow is different, the substance largely is not. With less flair but more efficiency and cautious consistency, the new masters of Moscow have continued Khrushchev's interdependent program of coexistence abroad and goulash Communism at home...
...party milieu, has the personality-or perhaps the ambition-to take charge alone. But as one observer puts it, "Russia is a dictatorship without a dictator now," and the feeling persists that the team system cannot work indefinitely. The old conflicts between the metal-eaters and the goulash-givers surely remain, and the military is hardly likely to be ecstatic over the shorter shrift it seems to be getting these days. But such power struggles as may be taking place are invisible, so carefully does the Kremlin balance out podium seats, portrait placements, prestige titles and foreign travel among...
...something intrinsically funny in the figure of a Hungarian refugee who teaches European history in a New Jersey parochial school for girls and is also a sex fetishist, then this is a funny book. If there isn't, then it is not. The author of this unruly goulash prefers to remain anonymous; Felix Bastian is a nom de plume...