Word: khrushchevism
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Stanford officials claim, perhaps in an attempt to persuade the Cantabridgian Khrushchev into putting his shoe back on, that the whole controversy has been blown out of proportion by the article. "We never offered her anything that any other Music major doesn't have access to," Tanya Granoff, assistant to the dean of admissions, told The Crimson last week...
...colored pencils. Extensively briefed by his aides, Gorbachev had brought along typewritten notes ruled in red, blue and green. He also brought an expert: seated next to him was Georgi Arbatov, Moscow's best- known Americanologist. Viktor Sukhodrev, who has served as the top-level Kremlin interpreter since the Khrushchev era, again acted in that role...
...some associations and some memories of a different kind. After all, it was in a very difficult period of our relationship that we managed to find, with Nixon when he was President, the solutions to some very important issues. I recall still further back in 1961 the meeting between Khrushchev and President Kennedy in Vienna. That was a very difficult time as well. There was the Caribbean crisis, yet in 1963 we saw the partial test-ban treaty. Even though that was again a time of crisis, the two sides and their leaders had enough wisdom and the boldness...
...impression of being a new type of Kremlin leader. He sprinkled his remarks with knowledgeable but unostentatious references to an American newspaper columnist, Third World poverty and the technology of Star Wars weaponry. He displayed a talent for vivid metaphor unheard in the Kremlin since the days of Nikita Khrushchev. Sample: "Certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor, at one point inviting the U.S. to reply to what it views...
...past, Kremlin propaganda has often sounded to the rest of the world, and even to Soviet citizens, like, well, propaganda. The Soviets were once clumsy and loutish as salesmen. When Nikita Khrushchev wanted to make a point at the United Nations in 1960, he took off his shoe and waved it. Mikhail Gorbachev, by contrast, is a walking advertisement for a different Soviet way of doing things. He is a smooth performer in public and a skillful articulator of the Kremlin line. Like the new man in charge, Soviet propaganda has become subtler and more adroit. A recent example...