Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entirely new vocabulary. Tracatrán, a new coinage onomatopoetically suggesting machinelike response, refers to a person who carries out orders implacably; parquear la tinosa means "to park the buzzard," or pass the buck; saram-pionado, or "measled," describes someone who shows a rash of too much Marxist-Leninist theory...
...Soviet international respectability. But Moscow has had great difficulty in translating this image into concrete influence, partly because it seems basically divided as to its ultimate aims. Is it to be a conventional big power with global responsibilities and trade interests, more or less unhampered by the old Marxist goal of world revolution? Or is it to compete with Peking in the expensive and increasingly futile business of spreading disorder and rebellion...
Audiences have always approached the arts generally, and the theatre specifically, to have their own moral schemes vindicated. For that matter, orthodox Catholic and Marxist critics think that's what the arts are for. But from the Dionysia to the Comedie audiences have been second-guessed...
...expense-paid, 14-week international seminar; positions on international issues were carefully guided by well-informed arguments and background papers based on CIA information. On occasion, N.S.A. members were used for marginal, low-key intelligence work-an appraisal of the Marxist leadership in Bolivian universities, an analysis of Dominican student attitudes during the crisis...
...situations, perhaps, mere aid or propaganda functions turned into full-fledged political operations-as in the violent general strike that helped bring down the government of pro-Marxist Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana three years ago. It was financed by the CIA-backed Public Services International, whose ostensible aim was to organize government workers into independent unions around the world...