Word: paean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After this fake little paean to peace, the Kremlin announced "a new nuclear explosion" had been "carried out at a great altitude." If the world by now was left a little breathless and confused, the distractions were working well. But not all the confusion was planned. Before the week ended, it was clear that the Kremlin was suffering from divided counsels, hot tempers and international distress...
After four months of radioactive cobalt treatment in a Moscow hospital, Mexico's pudgy Communist Artist Diego Rivera, 69, bounded out with a paean to the "miracle cure" of his skin cancer. The Communists picked up the tab for all his expenses, so Rivera made a grateful bid (untaken) to his hosts: "I would consider it the climax of my career if the Soviet government asked me to paint something for them here!" The U.S.S.R. struck Diego Rivera as little short of paradise. Said he: "I am very happy to have been sick here...
...subordinate: Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Bulganin learned self-effacement in the hardest school of all: Joseph Stalin's, where self-effacement was often the price of survival. On the dictator's 70th birthday, every member of the Politburo was required to compose a paean of praise for the Soviet newspapers. Khrushchev contrived to include 45 separate mentions of Stalin's name and Malenkov 57, but Bulganin topped them all. He mentioned the boss 108 times in his piece-easily a record...
...talks of love and freedom to the jail's cleaning girl and of bitterer truths to the hotheaded husband of the woman he supposedly wronged. The music too often slips out of focus, but at its best contains some genuinely affecting melody (notably in a paean to San Francisco) and some stirring emotional overtones...
...this bright day, there is only one cloud to dull the sky for those who wear the Green. And, as usual, the cloud has an Orange lining. While Dublin Cheers and New York sends up its annual blue-coated paean to Shamrock land, the lads up north in Ulster must keep silent and dare not even march the streets of Belfast or toast Parnell with Irish Stout...