Word: gradualism
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...long shelf of Koestler's work (six novels, 30 nonfiction books), no volume is as memorable or seems more likely to last. This searing tale of the Soviet Union's 1936-38 purge trials, and the gradual extraction of a false confession from an old revolutionary, proved profoundly persuasive to readers throughout the Western world. It was a bestseller in the U.S., and a 1951 dramatization by Sidney Kingsley, with Claude Rains in the central role, was a hit on Broadway. Following Darkness, Koestler wrote several powerfully antitotalitarian books, including Arrival and Departure (1943) and The Yogi...
After the Crimson players had finished their on-ice rejoicing and had collected their various awards, it was Fusco who described the victory from the perspective of one participated in Harvard's gradual climb to Eastern hockey supremacy...
...associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...
...orbital platform for military and scientific ventures. Lacking a reusable space shuttle like Challenger to ferry men and material, the Soviets have been forced to send their crews up for longer and longer periods. Declares Anatoli Alexandrov, president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences: "The strategy of a gradual increase in man's stay in space has justified itself completely. It means that even longer space expeditions are quite feasible...
...former Ambassador to Hungary, Andropov was chosen by Brezhnev in 1967 to continue the gradual "politicization" of the KGB. He took over a security service still demoralized after several reorganizations. Andropov set about winning friends among the power groups hostile to the secret police. The military, for example, has been a traditional KGB rival. Security police ruthlessly purged the military high command on Stalin's orders in 1937, and uniformed KGB agents still riddle the armed services at all levels, a power unto themselves. It was a measure of Andropov's political skill that he managed to form an alliance...