Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German kids swallowed that kind of talk. Inside the F.D.J. there is an anti-Communist "Resistance" whose members pasted up anti-Communist posters in East Berlin with the message: "Ivan -Go Home!" Others distributed fake newspapers, their front pages strictly Communist, but the inside pages crammed with anti-Communist arguments...
...somehow, in all of "Ivan's" ardor and devotion, there seemed to be a fatal flaw. He liked to run the Ministry of Education in his own way and he stubbornly resisted the demands of party politicos with axes of their own to grind. From the standpoint of the Casa Rosada, Oscar Ivanissevich was beginning to seem a little too independent...
...Ivan refused. An editorial in Eva Peron's own evening Noticias Gráficas announced the inevitable decision: "The authorities who control education have taken no step whatsoever [to counter] the terrific insult . . . Those whose task it is to look after the national culture and pUrity of national virtues have failed...
Last week Perón accepted Ivanissevich's resignation. Ivan had already retired to the sleepy provincial capital of La Rioja (pop. 15,000). For the immediate future, Oscar Ivanissevich planned to stick to poetry and medicine...
...Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov tells a fable of Christ's return to earth during the Spanish Inquisition. Unceremoniously thrown into jail, He is told by the Grand Inquisitor that men are not ready for the life of love and that meanwhile His presence can only hinder the business at hand. The saddened Christ takes his departure...