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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revise Marx to fit the Russian pattern, it was Nikita Khrushchev who launched the official decline of the doctrine. Faced with the necessity of solving countless economic and social problems, today's Soviet planners find such Marxist theories as class revolution and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" just plain nuisances. The Chinese are right, of course: the Russians are revisionists. In a very real sense, Russia has survived Marxism more than it has been formed by it. "The revolution is over," says Glasgow University Sovietologist Alec Nove. "Its rationalities, its logic, have little further relevance so far as economic...
...respectful two paces behind, first lit a symbolic flame of freedom in a large urn, then mounted the red-carpeted steps to recite the oath of office. When he was finished, pretty Vietnamese girls in ao-dais released hundreds of colored balloons into the air. In his brief, plain-spoken inaugural address, Thieu told the South Vietnamese that now "my preoccupations are your preoccupations; I shall rely on your eyes to see more clearly and your concern to gain a better knowledge." He again offered to hold direct talks with Hanoi to end the war, as he had promised during...
Even so, Stokes has retained widespread support among Cleveland's establishment. The Plain Dealer strongly reaffirmed its earlier endorsement of him as "the skilled professional" against Taft "the pleasant amateur." The Democratic Party has given Stokes enthusiastic backing, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Teamsters Union are for him, and he continues to enjoy overwhelming popularity among the city's 120,000 registered Negroes (v. 200,000 whites). "I can lose the election only if I make a big mistake," says Stokes. Some of his supporters are worried that he already...
Honk for Service. Whether fancy or plain, the mechanics of most drive-in churches are similar. Ushers distribute printed hymns as the cars roll in, help plug in speakers, take car-to-car collections during the service or request worshipers to place donations in a bin on the way out. Some drive-ins also pass out car-to-car wafers and grape juice for Communion. At many drive-in churches, worshipers roll down their windows and sing hymns together, get out of their cars after services for coffee and doughnuts at the snack bar. Some pastors try to talk briefly...
From this point onward, Bulgakov's novel fans out into a frenzy of manic action in which Moscow is virtually taken over by the Devil and his attendant demiurges. These take their supernatural business for granted, while, in contrast, many plain Soviet citizens are deprived of their Marxist grasp of material reality by the apparition of the Devil, and behave like lunatics. First the poet, then assorted officials, unhinged by their attempts to explain the inexplicable, wind up in the psychiatric center...