Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev found Ehrenburg a little too outspoken and said so; but Ehrenburg, now a secure senior citizen of the Soviet literary establishment, with a five-room luxury apartment in Moscow filled with modern French art, paid no heed. Ehrenburg always insisted he had not bought his immunity under Stalin. "I lived in an era when the fate of man resembled not so much a chess game as a lottery," he said. Last week, at the age of 76, the last lottery brought down the professional survivor: he died of a heart attack in Moscow...
Berlin remained the major cockpit of contention: in 1948, 1958 and 1961, it brought the antagonists near the brink but always just a step short. Then, in 1962, Khrushchev made his biggest blunder by putting Soviet missiles into Cuba. It was then, argues Halle, that the cold war reached its hottest point. Khrushchev's backdown was the Waterloo...
...outspoken Russian poet is as good as his word. He spits when the mood strikes him, and he seems care less of the consequences. When Nikita Khrushchev personally upbraided him for his unconventional poetry, Voznesensky stubbornly refused to recant. When critics attacked him for formal ism, which in Soviet jargon means experimenting with the language, Voznesensky replied in verse: "They nag me about formalism./Formaldehyde: you stink of it and incense." He helped to stir up the Soviet Writers Congress last May by signing a letter boldly calling for an end to Soviet censorship. Last week copies of a Voznesensky...
Dangerous Defiance. Pravda did not print the letter, and Voznesensky did not cool off. A few days later, at a poetry reading in a Moscow theater, he expanded his indictment to take in all the boorishness in Soviet culture that was epitomized by Khrushchev's shoe banging...
...missile crisis. It was named after "the recurrent scene in Anthony Trollope's novels in which the girl interprets a squeeze of her hand as a proposal of marriage." When Moscow seemed to be stalling about pulling the missiles out of Cuba, the White House decided to force Khrushchev's hand by publicly accepting an offer of a settlement that he had made only tentatively and in secret. Next day he announced that his missiles would be removed...