Word: marxisms
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...meeting of minds. The Americans were represented mainly by the Porgy players, who had been given by American history a faculty for looking at social institutions with a wary eye. The Russians were represented by 1984 men, whom history had given nothing but a theory of history. Jive and Marxism simply do not dig each other. It is Capote's achievement that the pseudo-sophistication of jive comes through as a kind of innocence, while the smug smog of Marxism is shown for what it is-a grey disease of the mind...
...most critical area for Khrushchev outside of Poland is Communist Hungary, where a wave of unrest has swept through the universities and schools. Students have been demanding an end to Russian language classes and compulsory courses in Marxism, more freedom and better living conditions. At one university last week 3,000 students quit their Communist youth organization to form an independent group. As in Poland, local Communist organizations appeared to be behind some of the student agitation, though cautioning them against street demonstrations. At this precarious moment, appropriately, Hungary's new party boss, Erno Gero, turned up in Belgrade...
Died. Bertolt ("Bert") Brecht, 58, slight, bespectacled German playwright (librettist for Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera) who, according to ex-Communist Arthur Koestler, sold Marxism "with great brilliance and intellectual dishonesty" to "the snobs and parlor Communists" of Europe; of a heart attack; in East Berlin...
...party had only 25 out of 60 council seats while a left-wing coalition (Communist, Nenni Socialist and four independent Marxists) held 27. Left-wingers crowed that La Pira could stay in office only by accepting Communist support, thereby beginning Italy's first conspicuous "collaboration between Catholicism and Marxism," which Christian Democratic national headquarters steadfastly opposes. This La Pira flatly refused...
...Nkrumah had a particular reason for wanting to win decisively. Should he win "a reasonable majority in a newly elected legislature," the British Colonial Office had promised, the Gold Coast would get "a firm date" for independence, become the first black nation in the Commonwealth. Nkrumah, onetime dabbler in Marxism, now talks of "self-government in an atmosphere of peace, order and respect for the law." And for all the burblings of Blimps about the blacks, British colonialism has a stake in Gold Coast progress. "That's for you chaps to decide," the colony's able Governor...