Word: khruschchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chiefly by a mechanical delivery on Portia's part that extends even to the "quality of mercy" speech. Carnovsky's playing throughout this scene is a marvel. Here he lets himself lose control twice and shatters courtroom decorum by pounding on the judge's bench as though he were Khruschchev banging his shoe in the United Nations assembly. His modulation from this to his final "I am content" is masterly. When he makes his final exit, he stumbles on the stairs, then goes on -- defeated, but not crushed. This is a performance so complex, so complete, so compelling that...
Arguing that all Lodge's examples of Soviet aggression dated from the Stalinist era, Hughes claimed that "under Khruschchev, Russia is changing." Khrushchew views future competition between Communism, and the West as occuring in the economic sphere, Hughes maintained, and is himself opposed to nuclear war. "Russia is not like China," he concluded, "There is no longer such a thing as monolithic, international Communism...
Volume Two is an account of the period 1950 to 1960 and covers the rise of McCarthy, Khruschchev's anti-Stalin speech, Hungary, Suez, Iraq, Quemoy, Sputnik and the Summits. From a careful examination of these events, their interrelation, and the pre-War period, Fleming says, "It is difficult to find evidence of any desire on the part of the Soviets to plunge into conflict with the West." The Cold War is made to seem a creation of the West; so too is the iron curtain. Fleming even relates the Hungarian Revolt to the forced armament of Eastern Europe following...
This freedom or Russian oligarchy is especially significant, Inkeles said, because it is based on the loyalty of the people rather than the police terrorism used by Stalin. However, he stressed that Khruschchev achieved his reforms without changing the essential nature of the Soviet state. In fact, the Russian peasant has actually lost autonomy while he has become more satisfied with his material condition...
...second pillar remains intact. Almost weekly, James Reston uses his column in the New York Times to announce that Premier Khruschchev's belligerent policies are paradoxically strengthening allied unity and building the Atlantic Community...