Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov may still toady to the Kremlin's foreign-policy wishes (see above), but when it comes to internal matters, he is as reform-minded as any other Eastern European.
William Jennings Bryan once called him "Mexico's Sir Galahad." Yet Hollywood portrayed him as a cruel, simple-minded bandit who poured honey on his prisoners for the delight of watching the ants devour them. His widow denied stories of his atrocities, said in his defense that "If he...
Empty Flasks & Score Pad. "Christmas doesn't only seem to come earlier every year," argues a saleslady at Robinson's in Los Angeles. "It actually does. If people want to get their packages overseas or get cards to Europe without spending 500 for each of them, they'...
Tension is set up most intensely in the sadic electricity that crackles between the principals. Pleasence plays the husband as the abject dog beneath the good grey skin of a middle-aged respectable who has made his pile and lost his nerve, as a whipped cur whining, wriggling, licking, leaking...
Soviet reinvestment-on building the machine tools (and weapons) that the Soviets needed. Stalinist-minded Czech central planners (called "oxen" by many Czechs) blithely pumped billions of kroner in subsidies into moribund enterprises in order to make their master plans come true on paper. By 1963, Czech economic growth, which...