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...course," said the President, "the party makes meek eyes, in an effort to please and not scare anyone" -so much so that Frenchmen really do not believe that the Communists would dare to seize power in France. "Yet did you believe that Prussia and Saxony in 1945 and Czechoslovakia in 1948 would become Communist states? Nonetheless, Communist regimes were installed there and remain very solidly entrenched." Pompidou hinted that a leftist win would plunge France into a repetition of the massive civil disorders of 1968 that led frightened French voters into re-electing the Gaullists...
...left-leaning iconoclasms last June, it warned readers that "his provocative and controversial style will shock and anger some." Sure enough, shock and anger quickly appeared-in Tribune editorials. "We can't sit by," the Trib huffed in July, "while he refers to Israel as 'the Prussia of the Middle East.'" The next month, the paper hopped up again to skewer Von Hoffman's critical description of Republican partying at the Miami convention: "If some [of the delegates] appeared to be affluent, well, so do some syndicated columnists." When Von Hoffman recently blamed the nationwide energy...
...freak of nature is a baroque opera with a dramatically engrossing plot. Such is the case with Montezuma, whose book was by Frederick the Great of Prussia. The music is reputed to be quite up to the above-average standards of the plot, as well. With extensive pruning, the Associate Artists Opera are presenting a rare experience...
...Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
August 1914 traces in painful detail the stupidity causing the collapse of the Russian Second Army in East Prussia at the beginning of the First World War. Historically, the battle in the Tannenberg Forest was the first of a long series of military catastrophes which led to Russia's defeat in the war, set the stage for the Bolshevik revolution and has had reverberating consequences down to the present time Solzhenitsyn portrays the event in light of these consequences, and adopts a panoramic view that may seem reminiscent of Tolstoy but which is unusual in World War I fiction...