Word: khrushchevism
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Seldom in history has a diplomatic crisis been so well advertised in advance. From Moscow came leaden hints that only the U.S. elections on Nov. 6 were holding up the next round of the Berlin struggle-a round that just might bring Nikita Khrushchev to the U.N. and might also bring the long-threatened peace treaty for East Germany this fall...
Ideas Afloat. All the noise reflected a suspicion in Washington that Khrushchev and his advisers may not really believe that the U.S. or its Allies will fight in a Berlin showdown. Kennedy believes that a disastrous collision can best be avoided if the signals of U.S. determination are repeated again and again, loud and clear...
...June, supposedly because of a cholera epidemic, although a major track meet was held on July 8 and Russian citizens were allowed to move freely in the allegedly disease-ridden area; 2) Novocherkassk imposed a curfew on young people, to remain in effect for two years; 3) Nikita Khrushchev's second in command, Frol Kozlov, made a special trip to the area June 8 and stayed for several weeks to deal with "certain party organizations for neglecting ideological and educational work...
...City Ballet arrived only a few days before Stravinsky departed, after a half-hour chat with Premier Khrushchev. Neither Balanchine nor his dancers could miss the tremendous impact that Stravinsky's visit had already had on Russian musicians long shut off from the fresh currents of Western musical thought. Russian music would not be the same again. Neither, chances were, would Russian dance...
...talked briefly about his recent visit to Russia and about conversations he had with Khrushchev, but did not say anything about Russian poetry. He delved briefly into politics, defining a liberal as a person "who would rather fuss with the Gordian knot than...