Word: monolithism
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...hard currency for Canadian grains and British industrial imports. "Our socialist brothers are having many difficulties," a Soviet diplomat recently chortled in Washington. "And they are not over them yet-no, not for some time." Meanwhile, the U.S. is banking heavily on the breakup of the Communist "monolith." State Department officials, who a few years ago were gloomily talking of a "lifelong struggle" in the aftermath of Russia's space victories and the Castro revolution, now talk perhaps too optimistically in terms of "winning it all in this decade." Says one: "We need to hold the line with firmness...
...Hard economic factors, as well as political pressure, cracked steel's monolith...
...need worry about. Schwarz stresses the external threat and power of Communism. Sometimes he overrates the Reds: to read or hear Schwarz, the Communists have never suffered a setback in their march toward world domination; the free world has never scored the slightest cold war success. Communism is a monolith without internal dissension. Nikita Khrushchev, while describing Stalin as a sadistic, megalomaniacal murderer, in his famous January 6, 1961 speech, was by Communist standards of virtue commending his old boss, not condemning him. Today, there is no such thing as an ideological split between Moscow and Peking; the notion that...
...clouds of language. Transplanted to the stage, they are long-wounded blabbers, who talk about themselves in cocktail party words that taste like the 14th anchovy. A few of Feiffer's targets have been pocked heavily by other satirists, and one blackout aimed at the telephone company, a monolith that fascinates all of the new comics, uses a punch line similar to one of Nichols' and May's. But it is not safe to smile comfortably as the actors poke fun at Freud, advertising or the CIA. Feiffer's models are the very sort of people...
...representative. Even if some unwise proposals come out of the Convention, the electorate will have a year to simmer down and strike them out in the referendum. These provisions make very small the possibility that a Convention would turn the government into a domineering glass-and-steel monolith, and it could well convert it into a structure suitable to the 20th century...