Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...security forces are permitted to pound off on a popular mass manhunt, the high level of government service cannot be maintained. Traditionally underpaid Civil Service employees will not be able to suffer their static promotion system when the F.B.I. also tells them what they must think. With every position in jeopardy, the Civil Service is faced with the possibility of an extensive Kultur purge that will substitute political wheelhorses for expert, but supposedly unfit officials...
...Atomic Energy, claimed that making atomic bombs was as easy as rolling off a neutron. His recipe, in United Nations World magazine: "Imagine a sphere of Uranium 235 large enough to be susceptible to explosive chain reaction. Now divide it into two hemispheres each below the 'critical mass.' Place these ... at the two ends of a cylindrical tube. One hemisphere is fixed, the other mobile, so that an explosive charge . . . can cause it to slide swiftly into contact with the other. . . . When the two hemispheres come together, the conditions for explosive chain reactions are fulfilled...
Every leading functionary in his or her mass activity must link up and integrate domestic issues with international questions, for precisely to the degree that foreign policy affects domestic policy, to that degree must the struggle for a correct position at home take on concrete forms of struggle for a correct position abroad...
...aristocrats in Europe were to be hanged. German princes & princesses would lead the way at a mass execution held in front of Berlin's Imperial Palace. The charges: sexual perversion, espionage, high treason...
Handbook for the Future. Today in Russia Dostoevsky's works are officially permitted, but not encouraged for mass reading. This fact, coupled with the novel's own complexities, has caused A Raw Youth to be neglected in its motherland. Dostoevsky himself hoped that his cumbersome novel would have somewhat more survival value. In a kind of confession of failure he wrote at the end of it: "When the angry strife of the day has passed . . . then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos! Then such [works as this] so long as they...