Word: post-war
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Although the encounter with the political commissar was noted, it was also forgiven. But nine years later the party was not so lenient. In 1944, Uspensky, who had risen quickly in the Soviet Army, took part in a seminar on the post-war tactics of the Communist Party. Although he still considered himself a loyal Bolshevik, he felt that some of the party's actions were incompatible with Communist ideology, and used the opportunity to aim masked criticism at Stalin. "I was clandestine and hoped I could get away with it," Uspensky says. "I said things which are now considered...
...greater efficiency and equity at home. Although he doesn't fall prey to the chauvinism that taints much current political discussion, Muller's proposals for dealing with the rest of the world are no less than imperialsitic. Falling back on one of the few unqualified successes of American post-war policy, the Marshall Plan, he suggests a global analogue that would spur industrial development in the Third World while buttressing markets for American corporation...
...nothing Susan Brounmiller did not already say about rape, provides no new insights into the "Feminine Mystique" that Betty Friedan wrote about, and offers no new statistics on the evils of Nestle's Baby Formula, she eloquently describes the contradictions and confusions that beset a "liberated" feminist weaned on post-war values. Among O'Reilly's more bewildering regressions are the compulsion to make her house "look as though no one lived there"; preparing coffee for men who are willing to make their won; masochistically choosing lovers who humiliate her; and believing that "if I pick up the phone...
Doubts remain, though. Was AMNLAE a concessionary tool on the part of a male-dominated government to maintain post-war unity in a nation where 90 per cent of the population fought against Somoza? Are women encouraged to work solely to achieve a certain level of national productivity...
Script and crypt have always crept menacingly side by side in Kubrick's imagination. This latest film explores the death of love in post-war (and pre-WAR) America. It depicts the horror of a people who watch their own bloody past on TV, paint a bloodier future in books and movies Kubrick's included), and sit nervously waiting to be swallowed by an inevitable, self-destructive evil...