Word: monolithism
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...city streets and against the odds, would risk everything for freedom: two brave youths fought off Soviet army tanks with stones. It was June 17-the day East Germans rose up against their Communist oppressors across their barbed-wire land, the day that showed that the Red monolith might some day crack...
...empire all the strains and stresses which assail its granite exterior; they did not inherit the cement of Stalin's myth and mystique. Now, on both sides of the great Red wall, the deadly, cold-eyed watch has begun-the Communists alert to prevent any fissures in their monolith; the West alert to find even hairline cracks through which to enter wedges...
...superiority of Stevenson's program rests in its comprehensiveness, in its fitness to the whole problem. Unless one wishes a monolith like the Cominform, the United States' best defense against Asiatic Communism is strong independent nations in the Far East. Conveniently, this is a highly moral goal to assume as well, and Americans, for good or ill, demand above all a morally acceptable foreign policy target...
...pyramid, never dreamed of a structure like the Russian Communist Party. Communists like to make it seem like a pyramid in which power rises from the grass roots up through local and regional committees to the top. The West, on the other hand, usually sees the party as a "monolith," in which Stalin has only to crook his little finger to produce a purge in Krasnoyarsk. The Russian version is nonsense, but the Western idea is not quite right either. The party is in fact a highly complex mechanism which must be kept well oiled if Stalin's finger...
Every day she went down to the monolith in the cactus grove. Wiser now, she wore only a wrapper and sandals, so that in an instant she was naked to the sun. (page...