Word: kremlinologist
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...introduction, Edward Crankshaw, noted British Kremlinologist and a Khrushchev biographer, characterized the volume: "Here was Khrushchev, quite unmistakably speaking, a voice from limbo, and a very lively voice at that. . . An extraordinary, a unique personal history." As for the former Soviet Premier himself, he was reported last week to be at his villa, 25 miles from Moscow, bedridden with "cardiac insufficiency...
...delightful way of describing Gypsy Rose Lee, and helped make it a part of the language. The title beatnik, originally bestowed on Bohemian writers in San Francisco, became a generic term in the pages of TIME. McCarthyism and Castroism first came into general use in the magazine, as did Kremlinologist, Sinologist and urbanologist...
...czarist days of Peter the Great, who coveted the warm water ports of the Mediterranean. Though the Kremlin has soft-pedaled the Communist imperative to spread the red flag wherever possible, such ideological expansion continues to affect Soviet conduct. The most important element in the Soviet thrust, as British Kremlinologist Victor Zorza notes, is that "the Soviets are a great power, and they want the facilities that go with great-power status." Those facilities include not only markets for Soviet industry and sources of raw materials, but also the fleets, bases, and other concrete symbols needed to establish influence beyond...
...found the leaders' TV appearances and play in the press invaluable as indicators. After receiving a coveted invitation to the Lenin memorial celebrations, Schecter bought a pair of 6 x 24 binoculars in order to get a better look at Politburo members from the foreign press balcony. "A Kremlinologist could construct a whole theory of leadership," reports Schecter, "on the basis of who talked to whom, who frowned, who rubbed his eyes or who pulled his earphones out during what speech." But this, of course, is only one small part of the constant search for a new fact, clarification...
Since Khrushchev's one-man show came to an end, his successors have replaced his shoe-pounding, maxim-spouting ebullience with deliberateness that has long since crossed over the border into dullness. Conservative, guarded, suspicious, they exemplify a whole generation of bureaucratic middlemen. Writes British Kremlinologist Robert Conquest: "Vacillation, the attempt to combine contradictory drives, has been the pattern. The predominant motive seems to be a desire to avoid all change and reform in the hope that no crisis will spring up and that the contradictions within their society and economy will go away...