Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich and occasionally cranky meditation on the ways in which Americans have retreated into self-gratification and a kind of infantilism. The popular culture, says Fairlie, has thoughtlessly absorbed an art and literature of turbulence that are the art and literature of Europe in decline. Fairlie sounds like Nikita Khrushchev at an exhibition of modern art when he talks of attitudes of alienation that represent a "sickness of the imagination." With an outsider's desire to think better of Americans than they think of themselves, Fairlie endorses the idea of America as a promised land enjoying historical dispensations...
...ailing John Kennedy went to Vienna in 1961 to meet with Nikita Khrushchev. There is no direct evidence that the throb in J.F.K.'s back affected his ability to debate Khrushchev, but a few of his aides, who helped him in and out of hot baths, wondered about it. Kennedy knew the dangers of a weakened body. During the Cuban missile crisis, he insisted on his hour's nap and hot packs each afternoon, remarking that the worst thing he could do was to get too tired and lose his judgment...
...essence of Communism," he writes. "What changes is not the Stalinist system but the rigor with which it is applied." Since a regime cannot shoot or imprison every one year after year, a relaxation of repression or an increase in consumer goods may work better for a time. But "Khrushchev and Brezhnev are no less Stalinist than Stalin . . . They are merely less bloodthirsty...
...provide answers for the problems of America, not just harp on the problems themselves. We're going to do things the Wallace way, but we'll take ideas wherever we can find them. We read books by Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Scammon [the political analyst], Khrushchev and Nixon...
...Kennedy for his role in the invasion's failure, as were most CIA agents and Cuban exiles. Kennedy refused to order a second air strike after the first one had been exposed--thus dooming the invasion force to defeat and capture--curtailed subsequent anti-Castro forays, and promised Khrushchev to end all invasion plans in return for removing Russian missiles...