Word: khrushchevism
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...Cuban crisis, messages moved with nerve-tugging sluggishness between the Kremlin and the White House. Some exchanges took as long as seven hours. Last week, at disarmament talks in Geneva, the Russians agreed to Kennedy's proposal to hook up a direct line of communication between Premier Khrushchev and the President. But it will probably be a Teletype, not a telephone-Kennedy feels that a few heated words over a hotline phone might lead...
...paucity of facts in Moscow lends a certain credibility to every rumor about the Kremlin, especially when it concerns the supposed ups and downs of Nikita Khrushchev.* Thus it was last week that a whisper from Moscow via Rome became a blast of hot air felt around the world...
...Though Khrushchev was surely under pressure, he did not act like a fellow on the skids. He sent a note to his poison pen pal Mao Tse-tung politely declining Mao's invitation to talk over the Sino-Soviet split in Peking (TIME, March 22). Instead he invited Mao or a group of colleagues to Moscow. Suggested time for the confrontation of quarreling Communists: in the spring or summer, "which are good seasons of the year in our country...
...callousness of Soviet society has made him the idol of his generation. For a while, in fact, it seemed as if Evtushenko (TIME cover. April 13. 1962) had become a semiofficial Angry Young Marxist, whose occasional excesses were tolerated by the regime because they made it appear as if Khrushchev's Communism could actually accept criticism. If so, Evtushenko pushed his luck...
...intellectuals. He even held a series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence was to give the editors of France's L'Express his autobiography for publication, knowing well that no Soviet writer is permitted to publish abroad without first getting clearance from the censors...