Word: khrushchevism
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...suit, the Democratic senator could pass for an Ivy Leaguer. His pants sometimes bag a bit around the shoes, but, except for this, he hardly resembles the popular caricature of Senator Claghorn from the outlands. Church's speech is slightly nasal, but has none of the Khrushchev and the people of Idaho agree is abstract painting." But he can turn words and situations to advantage as well as amusement. When a student asked whether it was a good idea to send people like Senator Ellender to Africa, Church, reluctant to discuss the foibles of his colleagues, replied with a slight...
...only the beginning. On December 17 Khrushchev and other top Party officers met with "representatives of literature and arts" to remind them of the Party's determination to continue to define the tasks and direction of artistic creation." Last week the Kremlin was the scene of another such meeting, and press reports said "Mr. Khrushchev's words were widely regarded as an ultimatum to writers, painters, composers and other artists who had challenged the authority of the Communist Party in cultural affairs...
Thus giving permission to publish One Day must be seen as a purely political decision by the regime. First of all the novel serves the cause of anti-Stalinism, and concomitantly the cause of Stalin's denunciator Khrushchev. As the editor of Novy Mir wrote in a preface to the original publication, "Only by going into its consequences fully, courageously, and truthfully can we guarantee a complete and irrevocable break with all those things that cast a shadow over the past...
...golden boys sometimes overstep the bounds, and when they do the image of dissent is suddenly revealed for what it is. Last week Khrushchev denounced the elderly Ehrenburg for pleading for co-existence between socialist realism and Western art forms. "Whoever preaches the idea of peaceful coexistence of ideologies slides down to the positions of anticommunism" Krushchev declared, and added that Ehrenburg had committed a "gross ideological error...
...important thing about Khrushchev's tirade last week was not so much that he denounced Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg, but that they both will most likely continue to endure and flourish. This is because they are political figures who made political mistakes and politics can be easily handled by the regime. Both Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg accept the framework of Societ society, and by accepting this framework they are assured personal security--and very limited influence...