Word: leninization
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...Natural." Once again police gave way. The horde raced across Red Square, up an incline not far from Nikita's window (he was out inspecting an economics exhibition), past Lenin's granite mausoleum, and on toward the historic Spassky Gate that leads to the inner Kremlin grounds. At that moment the huge iron gates clanged shut. Using sound trucks, the police pleaded with the students to disperse, but for two more hours they argued and jostled with police. Ogling the demonstration were thousands of Russians, who watched from the street and from the windows...
...companion work is Fifty abstract pictures which as seen from two yards change into three Lenines masquerading as Chinese and as seen from six yards appear as the head of a royal tiger. The painting lives up to every detail in its title. Explains Dali: "Eeet is like le floor of a hotel room que je stayed in avec mosaic and a rug shaped like the head of a tigre." The heads of Lenin, filling triangles between the mosaic squares are disguised as Fu Manchu, and the whole work forms a tiger head...
Naive, Even Stupid. He also disarms criticism-up to a point-by asking the reader's question for him: Why should a man who voted Communist in 1932 now argue so passionately against "state control"? He was "naive enough," he answers, to take seriously Lenin's promise that the state would "wither away." He admits: "It may seem naive, and even stupid, on the part of one who had worked for years on a journal which specialized in public affairs [the New Republic] that he should have paid so little attention to recent changes in the income...
...style was a tough wit. When he met Nikita Khrushchev for the first time in Vienna in 1961, he noticed a medal on the Russian's chest, asked what it was. When Khrushchev replied that it symbolized the Lenin Peace Prize, Kennedy snapped back: "I hope you keep it." Again, when he spoke at a big-money fund-raising dinner in Denver, he looked over the audience for a moment, then cracked: "I am touched by your attendance-but, of course, not as deeply touched as you were...
...Brooklyn, DuBois continued his research. Though in his own country he had been persecuted, peoples of the new nations did not forget him. Delegations from the United Nations visited his home. His 90th birthday was honored throughout the People's Republic of China. The Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin International Peace Prize. And at the end of his years Dr. Kwame Nkrumah invited him to come to Africa and begin what someday may be considered his greatest contribution, the Encyclopaedia Africana. He became a citizen of Ghana three years before his death. The New England boy, born when slavery...