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...Last Ism. Soviet critics, too, were soon after Chagall's hide, dubbing his misbegotten revolution in art a "mystic and formalistic bacchanal." But the purge came from the quarter he least expected. He had hired two painters, Malevich and Lissitzky, members of the suprematist school of painting, to teach in Vitebsk's Free Academy. One day he returned from Moscow to find that they had taken over the school, and based its new curriculum on their brand of geometrical abstraction and pure objectivity...
...carry Wilma out. Having a grand time in the limelight, where all could see her two-piece "Early Bird outfit" of an off-white tunic and matching knee breeches, she kicked her high boots in the air, waved her straw "space hat" at the crowd. Screaming "A. T. & T. ism," she threatened: "I'm going to sue the corporation." As she disappeared, the crowd cheered...
Hungary has produced perhaps the most interesting sign of change. Last month, in the party journal Tarsadalmi Szemle (Social Review), Red Theoretician Josef Lukacs, editor of an atheist magazine, argued that "we do not get very far with the old-type atheism and anticlerical ism which tried to fight against religion in an abstract manner," and that Communism should cooperate with "well-intentioned religious people" in achieving common social goals...
...part, Wagner cried "Boss-ism!" and sulked. Resistance to Erway's nomination began to mount steadily, and by last week even Boss Buckley was backing away. The likely outcome: Erway will be sacrificed by Buckley & Co. to allow Wagner his own choice for majority senate leader, in return for which Wagner will accept Steingut as assembly leader...
Illusions of Power. Disillusioned by patriotism and heroism, as he had been by his youthful innocence, Sebastian is taken prisoner by the Russians; in prison he embraces the dream of cold real ism called Communism. Once the Communists seize power in postwar Rumania, Sebastian becomes an officer of the security police; after he can no longer stomach that, he switches to the industrial bureaucracy. His rise is rapid, but at every step he learns that the most corrupting of all the illusions of power is the one that runs, "If there weren't people with a certain amount...