Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leningrad, the nine Governors-sat down to a caviar-to-strawberries feast hosted by the city's top Red, drank toasts to peace, friendship, good relations, mutual understanding, culture, trade, U.S. youth, Soviet youth, U.S. women and Soviet women, broke out in I've Been Workin' on the Railroad and Auld Lang Syne. And in Moscow, Dennis Michael O'Connor, 26, U.S. exchange student at Moscow University, and Mary Louise McMahon, 22, lately arrived from Tenafly, N.J., got married in the city's only Roman Catholic Church. Why get married in the U.S.S.R.? Explained...
Nobody knows the game better than Vice President Nixon, which is why Nixon's Moscow visit this month will be more than ceremony and a clamor for equal time on Red television. His will be the second most important official voice of the U.S., making it clear behind closed doors that the U.S. does not bluff easily...
...meet again some of Falstaff's wonderful cronies from the Henry plays: the red-nosed Bardolph (Edward Asner); the swaggering Pistol (Richard Easton); Nym (Severn Darden), a "fellow frights English out of his wits"; and the aged Justice Shallow (Will Geer...
...spot. The 19th century gallery is particularly impressive with Van Gogh's Self Portrait, the primus inter pares of the lot. The brilliant lime-green brushwork which forms a halo around the artist's head is both economical and expressive and the demonic eyes with yellow pupils, the red defining lines of the nose and mouth, and the curious (and heavily painted) medallion all contribute to this great self-portrait's emotional intensity. My next favorite is Degas' La Chanteuse au Gant, a painting in which the design of the black glove brilliantly counterpoints the rainbow of vibrant colors found...
...leader of Hungary's underground in World War II, stocky, peasant-reared Kovacs emerged as a dominant figure in the postwar period, led a coalition of peasants and the urban middle class (Smallholders Party) to a smashing victory over the Communists in the 1945 free elections. When the Red army moved into Hungary, it threw him into prison, tortured him for five months until he signed a confession of plotting against Russia. Released in the thaw of 1956, Kovacs joined Imre Nagy's short-lived, Communist-defying government, survived its collapse when Russian tanks blotted out the revolution...