Word: khrushchevism
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Without mentioning Nikita S. Khrushchev by name, the author indirectly criticized the late premier, who was ousted in disgrace...
Oleinik recalled the Khrushchev years when officials made overambitious agricultural targets, especially in growing corn, a pet project of Khrushchev, and then ignored the fact that targets were...
...whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Over the years a lot has gone wrong, and the timing has often scuttled the best-laid plans of statesmen, including some of the Soviet Union's own. In May 1960 an American U-2 plane was downed near Sverdlovsk, and Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia and SALT was postponed. In December 1979 the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan virtually guaranteed...
...Czar Nicholas II, when he accompanied his father on an expedition that reached Siberia. His last was in 1983, at the invitation of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. In between he negotiated his own private mineral concessions with Trotsky and spent more time with Stalin than any other American. Nikita Khrushchev liked the old capitalist so much that he jokingly offered...
...project for the professional reader. But there is an aesthetic challenge as well. Says Actor David Purdham, who has recorded some 30 authors, from William F. Buckley Jr. to Taylor Caldwell: "You do all the characters. You use different accents. I've been Eisenhower and Khrushchev. It's reviving what I call the theater of the mind." Actress Glenn Close, who has recorded the children's book Sarah, Plain and Tall, concurs, "I find it challenging. You have to play five or six different parts, and you have to give a real sense of storytelling. I was raised...