Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent most of his life, and kidnaped a state. Never before or after did he fire a gun or throw a bomb or raise his slim-fingered hands to strike a blow. In his name, nevertheless, more men have been slaughtered than in Attila's. His name was Lenin...
Critic's Teeth. Liebling has decided prejudices of his own. "The Sun" he says, "is a suburban paper published "on the island of Manhattan . . . as perfectly preserved as the corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max Lerner writes editorials "like an elephant treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens...
...student of Miaskovsky's too, has written A Cantata for Molotov. She is working on an opera, ordered by the Bolshoi Theater, based on a story of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a girl-Partisan heroine who was executed by the Nazis. Aram has won the Order of Lenin and two Stalin prizes (the last for his swirling, furiously rhythmic ballet, Gayane, a U.S. best-seller). He made a big hit with the Russian public during the war by returning one of his 50,000-ruble Stalin prizes ($10,000) and asking that a tank be built with the money...
...thing that Communists called the "Cominform" (meaning Communist Information Bureau) and which most of the rest of the world called the "New Comintern" or the "Little Comintern." To help them figure it out, the detective-statesmen had Dr. Watsons who were experts in everything from gamma rays to Lenin's writings. Piecing together a clue here and a clue there, the chancelleries had, by last weekend, made a little progress in solving the Mystery of Miszlakowice...
...recent survey along the assigned reading shelves of Widener showed literary works preserving pristine white margins. But Economic writings from Adam Smith to Vladimir Ilich Ulianov (Lenin) are salted with such witticisms as "you're crazy," and "tell it to Uncle...