Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been taken from Koestler's pages. Apparently for reasons of party unity, Rajk, like Koestler's Rubashov, confessed in court to treasonable deviation. But no relentless interrogator was needed to persuade Rajk to confess. The job was done by Rajk's friend Janos Kadar, now the puppet Premier of Hungary...
Kadar's very pliability has made him a failure as a puppet. Where a strong, though hated, leader might have pulled the remnants of the party and police state apparatus together and reimposed it on a defeated and distraught people, Kadar's weak half-measures (e.g., his arrest and then release of workers' council representatives) have merely served to strengthen the people's stand against him. The result is that half the collective farms remain in the hands of the peasants, coal miners still refuse to work, and much of the country's industry...
Apart from the animal motif, Ritchard has staged the affair with the wit of a Gilbert-and-Sullivan romp and the style of a top-drawer fancy-dress ball. Bouncing about like a tall, elegant puppet, he lives up to the excellent settings by Rolf Gérard (including a hilarious-looking Dungeon for Recalcitrant Husbands) and he delivers the lines and lyrics of Playwright Maurice Valency's able English adaptation with skilled gusto. In fact, Ritchard is guilty of only one flaw. He has included a cancan that is danced by the corps de ballet in more...
...Hungary. They are kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious independence-but independence nonetheless-in the shadow of its big neighbors...
...year term General Paul Eugene ("Bon Papa") Magloire was a popular chief, a stabilizing force and a builder (TIME, Feb. 22, 1954). He sternly denied any ambition to be a permanent President of Haiti, but as the end of his term neared, he resolved to impose a manageable puppet in elections set for next April. But Haitians spurned what .amounted to another Magloire administration. Instead, they warmed up to Opposition Candidate Louis Dejoie, a well-to-do planter who promised a businesslike regime...