Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glance at Russian public opinion and attitudes was provided by Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology, who told the audience that "many Soviet citizens have been profoundly alienated from the regime" by the Stalinist terror and the miserably depressed standard of living...
Centering largely on a description of Moscow University, Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, stressed the "driving dedication to science and technology" which makes a Russian scientific education "equal to the best this country has to offer." He gave much lower marks, however, to Soviet instruction in humanities and the social sciences...
...launching of the Russian earth satellites was a spectacular demonstration of the successes of an educational system which differs drastically from our own, and it jolted, at least temporarily, the American people into recognition of the truth that lay behind the criticism of the past...
...support for George Bernard Shaw's famous dictum, "Nothing is ever done unless people will be killed if it is not done." Unfortunately this is to a large extent true. The current reevaluation of the American school system, such as it is, is attributable mainly to the fear of Russian military power...
Author Heinrich is at his best as he describes the last-ditch stand of decimated German regiments against Russian divisions led by a hundred tanks. Towns burn, civilians are blown to bits, whole battalions are destroyed as they try to carry out orders from an incompetent division adjutant. Over the ghastly scene the snowy Carpathians loom like symbols of nature's indifference. But Heinrich neither needs nor uses literary symbolism. With a spare, brutal directness of language, he is able to show how men fight and die, convey the pressing of a trigger, the spreading stain of blood...