Word: platon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes from the spectacle of a simple man, laboring and suffering with naive good humor, and all for nothing. For Russian readers this agony is redoubled. Russians have always loved innocents in literature, and the carpenter Ivan is a peasant innocent in direct descent from Tolstoy's Platon Karataev in War and Peace. His meekness is in jarring contrast to the degradation of the camp?where an extra bowl of mush makes a day "almost happy," and where your most important possessions are your felt boots, a spoon you made from aluminum wire, a needle and thread hidden in your...
...which had held up its own deliberations until the President had finished his speech. The Russians, who missed the last major debate on Korea in 1950 because they were boycotting the Security Council, were on hand this time to take the role of Pyongyang's advocate. Soviet Delegate Platon D. Morozov immediately moved to strike the issue from the agenda, won support only from Hungary and Algeria and was voted down, 12 to 3. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg then called on the council to "act with the greatest urgency" lest the U.S. be forced to seek "other courses which...
...Mongi Slim took the floor to appeal desperately for U.S. support. But as a friend of both Tunisia and France, the U.S. could not afford to take sides. Instead, Tunisia got the stifling verbal embrace of the Soviet Union. Sounding trumpet calls against "Western imperialism," Russian Delegate Platon Morozov soon left Tunisia and its problems far behind. With a rattling of nuclear rockets, Morozov threatened instant erasure to those countries that continue to permit the establishment of U.S., British and French bases...
...behind him on the cover: Platon Morozov, Zorin's No. 2 man at the U.N. (with earphone), Alexei Nesterenko, the U.N. Soviet mission's political counselor...