Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East and Africa and resigns itself to pulling back into its tent with its materiel and its planes, if it gives up its bases over which so many people complain, if it abandons the whole world, including Great Britain and France, not 24 hours will pass before the Russian armies will have invaded Western Europe, which has fun playing like a spoiled child...
Baghdad is 600 miles from the Soviet city of Baku-about as far as Washington, D.C. is from Chicago. For centuries Russian imperialism groped without success for the power lodgment in the Middle East that the Soviet Union hopefully sees itself about to win. The Western powers had agreed to a summit meeting with Russia about the Middle East; and the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad all saluted this as a great Soviet breakthrough. "The Arabs are not Marxists," said Nikita Khrushchev last week. "But we hail them. National liberation is the first step...
...businessmen abroad: 56.4% of U.S. high schools, according to the report, do not teach even one foreign language. Less than 15% of public high school students are enrolled in a modern foreign-language course (almost none study ancient languages). Most take French or Spanish; rare are courses in Russian, Chinese, German, Italian or Portuguese. Even students exposed to languages may not take on enough ability to read a menu. Weighting the odds against the student, according to the report: ill-taught teachers, outdated textbooks, aimed at giving no more than reading knowledge, courses too short (generally two years) for proper...
Died. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 63, Russian satirist, who was at the top of the 1946 Soviet purge list of nonconforming authors; in Leningrad. The work singled out by the purgers was Adventures of a Monkey, the story of a marmoset that escapes from a zoo hit by a fascist bomb, awkwardly adapts to the Soviet society on the outside, at one point decides: "Oh, dear, it was silly to leave the zoo. You could breath more peacefully in the cage...
...Realists. Madame Sarraute, the Russian-born wife of a Paris lawyer, has been acclaimed a leader of a group called the New Realists, who urge a new kind of objectivity, which is at once both more detached and more intense. "In this future universe of the novel," says Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, the group's titular leader, "gestures and objects will be 'there,' before being 'something'; and they will still be there afterwards, hard, unalterable, eternally present, mocking their own meaning . . . No longer will objects be merely vague reflections of the hero's vague...