Word: officialdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Less for Officialdom. The national papers have been trying to win readers, who pay two kopecks (the price of two cigarettes) per paper, by publishing more human-interest stories. Last year, for instance, they covered the Tashkent earthquakes, which would previously have been reported only in the local Uzbek papers. Izvestia recently ran a story describing how a bus skidded and fell into a lake-albeit in a very positive way. It reported that a policeman rescued six of the passengers, but said nothing about the other 64, who presumably were not so lucky...
...papers no longer regularly quote the pronouncements of party officialdom in full. Coverage of economics has become less boastful. Soviet newspapers are still far from what they might be. But they are getting better as they begin to face reality and, at least in a small way, battle for circulation...
Aaron, like Daniel Seltzer today, was the partisan of the undergraduates. But his youth and consequent lack of influence made it impossible for him to function effectively with the faculty; his connection to Loeb officialdom put him out of favor with undergraduates as well. Aaron frequently offered unsolicited advice and was forcibly ejected from at least one Loeb rehearsal to which he came uninvited...
...persist in bringing misery to the people," Ky added, "we shall give them no quarter." So far this year, some 13,000 Viet Cong have defected under the Chieu Hoi ("open arms") program, but many of them have been unable to find jobs or overcome the suspicions of local officialdom. Thus Saigon hopes to win over significant numbers of Viet Cong while making life more attractive for those who might be tempted to join the enemy...
...looting and killing. He told me, 'We made them pay attention to us.' " Really paying attention means, as John Lindsay has shown, trying to do something about housing, sanitation, schools and jobs. Only through responsible and responsive public action to meet the Negroes' needs can white officialdom effectively inspire greater respect for law and order and lead the way to integrated power...