Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point Khrushchev lost his aplomb, and in revealing flashes of anger exposed the harsh Communist behind the beaming clown. His denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...
Though frustrated of popular success, B. & K. had managed to leave behind an impressive demonstration of the strength and technical achievement of Russia itself. They had failed miserably at conveying the impression of likable old fellows who meant no harm and who had never killed anybody in their lives. In the testing place of a free society, the Kremlin's dictators had been subjected to a cold, revealing light of exposure...
Paternal & Popular. But if Chileans variously feared or anticipated a dictator, what they got was a law-respecting President, in deep economic trouble from the start. Ibáñez worked his way through 17 Cabinet shuffles involving 58 Ministers. Congress insistently opposed his legislative programs, which, though never A B C clear, proposed some type of reform of the economic controls he inherited...
...make the reader mad enough to turn his attention to television or a typographically attractive magazine . . . Nine out of ten papers are crowded, lack eye-appeal, crowd too much in too little . . . What is the business doing about color, or is it going to abandon that great area of popular appeal entirely to the magazines and television...
...abroad, is so large and dispersed that Museum Director Peter Guille has yet to catalogue it. But in paintings already shown, the Clarks have included such Old World masters as Van Dyck, Frans Hals, Degas and Goya, plus outstanding works by two of the most popular U.S. painters (opposite...