Word: khruschev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worthwhile. Grandpa Galbraith has been around for a long time; The Age of Uncertainty breaks no new ground in his own intellectual development. And you probably know much of the stuff he talks about already: Smith on the division of labor, Keynes on the role of government economic intervention, Khruschev on peaceful co-existence. But as the author never tires of pointing out, Galbraith had had at least a distant acquaintance with most of the outstanding figures in economics and politics for the last half-century. As he wanders in his own order through the annals of intellectual and social...
...Nikita Khruschev...
...come a long way. In 1960, we had Like and Khruschev, Kennedy and Nixon. That year, in the last at-bat of a long career, Ted Williams hit a home run over Fenway's center field wall. A dose of cynicism was exactly what we needed. Rhetorical questions deserved good old Jewish common-sense answers...
...Soviet leaders may well conclude that the U.S. preferred hegemony in South Vietnam to "honor." Whatever steps the Soviets decide to take--and these are still unknown at the time of writing--the Moscow leaders will have to keep another important fact in mind: they overthrew their predecessor Khruschev who was ineffectual and who backed down at the expense of an ally in the face of U.S. demands at the time of the Cuban missile crisis...
...isolation, it must be noted that negotiations will take second place in the long run to domestic and international socialist solidarity. While they hope negotiations will succeed, they absolutely hold to their position that the capitalist world will inevitably attack. This theory, so firmly stressed in their split with Khruschev in the late fifties and early sixties, necessitates continued preparedness for war. As part of the reconstruction after the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese have strengthened the decentralized militias and have built underground bomb shelters in all the cities...