Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving him from "blowing up my own importance." Evoking contempt for Mayakovsky, Pasternak says that his work "was introduced by force, like potatoes under Catherine the Great." The liberal monthly Molodaya Gvardia recently attacked an even more sacrosanct Soviet idol, Maxim Gorky. It dismissed the author of The Lower Depths as nothing more than "a fairly good documentary journalist...
...incurring official wrath, two Israeli editors were dealt even harsher punishment than Colonel Moranda. Last December, Shemuel Mohr and Maxim Ghilan decided to try a little political sensationalism to boost the circulation (10,000) of their sex-oriented magazine, Bui. Under the headline "Stinking International Affair," they wrote that Israeli government officials were hushing up facts about the kidnaping of Moroccan Leftist Mehdi ben Barka in 1965. Not only were the French and Moroccan secret services involved in the plot, suggested Bui, but so was Israel...
...attempt to use the army to purge dissident leaders, Mao has run into a major difficulty: the army, created by the Communist Party, is finding it unpalatably difficult to discipline or destroy its creator. In fact, there are signs that the army is badly split. For Mao, whose maxim is that "power grows from the barrel of a gun," that was bad news indeed. Many guns in the People's Liberation Army are now apparently turning in his direction...
...girls; his final version simplified the scene to what it had actually been, a studio pose. And though rendered in watercolor-a lesser medium than oil-The Bather is, if anything, finer than his youthful version of some 60 years before. It was the final proof of his lifetime maxim: "The simpler the lines and forms are, the more there is of beauty and strength...
...velt muz men mer yoytse zayn vi far Got aleyn, says the Yiddish proverb. "The world is more exacting than God himself." It is a maxim that runs like a black thread through the fabric of American Jewish literature-from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Saul Bellow's Herzog. In Meyer Meyer, Author Helen Hudson follows the pattern by providing a translation of her own. In the secular cities of the earth, grace is granted not to those who reach up to God, but to those who reach...