Word: khrushchevism
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...nearly as tragic as its subject matter. Although Solzhenitsyn had begun researching the book in 1958, he did not start writing it until 1964, just as official Soviet acceptance of his works had be gun to wane. The 1962 publication in Russia of One Day, by Premier Nikita Khrushchev's order, had prompted hundreds of former prisoners to write to Solzhenitsyn, detailing their own experiences. Deeply moved, Solzhenitsyn shut himself up in a ramshackle dacha to work. He completed Gulag four years later. Solzhenitsyn was then unwilling to risk endangering his correspondents and those he had interviewed by allowing...
Then history began to play tricks on Allen Drury. The U-2 incident and Khrushchev banging his shoe. First moves into Viet Nam. Civil rights in the South. In the 1962 sequel to Advise and Consent, Drury tried to keep up. He escalated his story into a counterinsurgency war in Central Africa, coupled with radical attempts to exploit racial strife in the U.S. He also moved his senatorial heroes into the still windier forum of the United Nations. But these days no writer should play "Can You Top This?" with history...
...parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip. Kelly professed indifference ("They usually come back"), but he sometimes...
...Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face of the U.N., and a dowager named Betty Henderson, hoisting a varicose-veined calf onto a table to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
Like so many Russian artists, Akhmatova learned to discern fate in the changing cold war weather. The Khrushchev thaw brought renewed official acceptance. Much of her work was republished in Russia. At 75, she traveled to Oxford for an honorary degree, to Italy for a prize and to Paris. where 53 years before Modigliani had sketched her portrait. But fame, as Akhmatova once wrote, "is a trap wherein there is neither happiness nor light." Two years later, when she was buried with full Orthodox rites, her graveside was crowded with the Soviet literary establishment...