Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Diego Rivera's picture for Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, The Crossroads, with Lenin uniting the workers, was "reduced to plaster dust." If that is the case, then it has been beautifully reassembled . . . for it can be seen in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City ... A sizable amount of "dust" to be moved about, or did Rivera paint the same mural again for our neighbors to the South...
...hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled at the Lenin Institute in Moscow...
...Dennis ticked them off, those principles sounded no more radical than Harry Truman's Fair Deal, no more revolutionary than the teachings of Abraham Lincoln. It wasn't Marx and Lenin who advocated force, he said. No, indeed. If violence came as a result of what the party proposed to do, said Dennis, it would be the fault of "reactionary groups [who] try to stop the march of social progress...
...with the contract: "Man at the Crossroads looking with uncertainty but with Hope and High Vision to the choosing of a course leading to a New and Better Future." To Rivera, the "Crossroads" were capitalism and Communism, so he painted a mural contrasting Wall Streeters on a binge with Lenin uniting the workers. The Rockefellers said Lenin must go: Rivera thumbed his nose. In the end the Rockefellers had the fresco reduced to plaster dust...
Every year, millions of tons of coal are laboriously mined (at costs averaging $2.50 a ton), dumped into ovens and distilled, producing gas. For 80 years, scientists have been thinking of producing the gas without bothering to mine the coal. Lenin, picking up a British suggestion, wanted to try it in Russia. Since his death the Russians claim to have produced this kind of cheap power in many places...