Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khrushchev Remembers, Khrushchev...
...Khrushchev Remembers, Khrushchev...
...remarkable memory. After her husband's death, she continued to move from place to place, supporting herself first as a factory worker and later as a teacher. In 1956, Mandelstam, along with many other victims of Stalin's terror, was posthumously "rehabilitated" and cleared by Khrushchev. A few of his poems have since been published in the Soviet Union. But not this memoir. In her country, Nadezhda Mandelstam's only published work is a doctoral thesis in English philology, entitled Functions of the Accusative Case on the Basis of Materials Drawn from Anglo-Saxon Poetic Monuments...
Kenny after Hague was like Khrushchev after Stalin. The celebration on the night of his election was the only spontaneous one I ever saw in Jersey City. But though fear diminished, the System, with all its involuted roots, survived and flourished. How could it be otherwise? I will believe it has ended only when the great, greasy, Victorian city hall turns into an opera house and ward leaders become crusaders for ecology. As my grandmother used to say (she, like Mr. Kenny, had her own little adage): "We live in hope and we die in despair...
Ever since 1962, State Department officials have alluded to a vaguely defined "understanding" between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. would not invade Cuba if the Soviets did not build strategic bases or install nuclear weapons there. Last month the White House let it be known that this understanding had been "renewed." In the meantime, however, the Cienfuegos base is all but ready to service Soviet nuclear missile submarines...